Resources on Gender equality

  1. Spotlight on Cooperatives

    First women-only plumbers’ cooperative in Jordan

    12 June 2017

    Women plumbers’ cooperative in Jordan provides plumbing and repair services to households while also raising awareness among Jordanian women to improve water and energy management in their homes.

  2. Video

    Jordan Pay Equity Campaign advocates for closing the pay gap by challenging gender stereotypes

    03 March 2017

    Very often, the same jobs are given two different titles according to the worker’s gender. Such stereotypes may lead to a difference in wages. ILO partner Jordan Pay Equity Campaign conducted a social experiment to help identify people’s understandings of women and men’s roles in jobs of equal value.

  3. Project documentation

    Information note on impact research projects - Fund for Evaluation in Employment 2015

    17 March 2016

    This note provides information about youth employment projects supported by the ILO Fund for Evaluation in Employment 2015. The Fund is an initiative of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and aims to build evidence for effective design and implementation of youth employment and enterprises programmes.

  4. Project documentation

    Information note on results measurement projects - Fund for Evaluation in Employment 2015

    17 March 2016

    This note provides information about youth employment projects supported by the ILO Fund for Evaluation in Employment 2015. The Fund is an initiative of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and aims to build evidence for effective design and implementation of youth employment and enterprises programmes.

  5. Project

    Fair wages and childcare: promoting dignity and equality by empowering workers in the private sector in Jordan

    14 December 2015

    The project aims to improve working conditions for women in Jordan’s private sector by strengthening their negotiation skills to campaign for their right to pay equity and childcare.

  6. Pay discrimination

    Giving private-sector teachers in Jordan a voice

    07 October 2015

    A group of Jordanian teachers are making their voices heard to end gender-based pay discrimination and unfair working conditions in the private education sector through a community organizing campaign.

  7. Video

    Cooperating Out Of Isolation: The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait

    04 December 2014

    As in other parts of the world, Arab countries have seen an increase in – mainly female – migrant domestic workers, who have become the primary care providers in the household. This is the result of many contributing factors including the lack of affordable and well-regulated social care provisions and infrastructures, demographic shifts and transformation of families, and changing income and working patterns.

  8. Study

    ILO: Youth in Jordan face difficult transition from school to decent work

    21 July 2014

    Jordan’s youth face a myriad of challenges when attempting to move from education to the workplace, according to a new ILO study.

  9. Publication

    Independent Evaluation of Outcome 17: Gender Mainstreaming with the support of Sweden and Norway Partnership Agreements (Final Evaluation Summary)

    10 July 2014

    Projects: GLO/11/58/SID; GLO/12/50/NOR; GLO/12/53/NOR Evaluation Consultant:Dr. Jane Hailé

  10. © Jared J. Kohler/ILO 2017

    Sexual harassment

    Spreading the message on sexual harassment in Jordan’s garment factories

    03 July 2013

    The International Labour Organization (ILO) is helping to combat sexual harassment in garment factories in Jordan, through its Better Work programme.