News

December 2012

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   Global Wage Report 2012/13

   Gender pay gap drops, but not for the right reasons

   19 December 2012

   An ILO report says women’s pay has become closer to that of men in most countries but warns that in some cases this may just mean that men are worse off now than before the crisis.

July 2012

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   News item

   Women in EU public sector face higher risk of losing jobs

   30 July 2012

   The public sector in the EU offers many highly qualified jobs and is a major source of employment for women. But increasingly, those positions are being lost to austerity policies.

January 2011

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   I-News

   New UN report says rural women face increasing inequality: Calls for policies enabling women to drive rural economic growth and poverty reduction

   21 January 2011

   A new United Nations interagency report on the gender dimension of agricultural work says women still benefit less than men from rural employment and face new challenges due to the current economic and food crises.

March 2010

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   News item

   ILO study explores how workplaces are helping with childcare to allow more women to remain in paid employment

   08 March 2010

   A new study by the International Labour Office (ILO) says shortfalls in childcare for pre-school as well as school-age children have important implications for working parents, employers and societies as a whole.