Resources on Gender equality

  1. Event

    Women’s Economic Empowerment: the case for equal pay for work of equal value

    Side event organised by ILO and Governments of Belgium and Brazil, during the sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61) which will take place at the UN Headquarters in New York from 13 to 24 March 2017.

  2. Event

    Launch of the Equal Pay Platform of Champions

    Side event organised by UN Women, ILO and Governments of Iceland and Switzerland

  3. Cooperatives

    When work is more than “just a job”

    02 July 2015

    As the world celebrates the International Day of Cooperatives, ILO News looks at how one cooperative in Brooklyn, New York, is offering migrants a dignified and sustainable way to make a decent living.

  4. News

    Women Migrant Rights discussed at the 59th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

    09 March 2015

    Representatives of Member States, UN entities and ECOSOC-accredited NGOs from different regions of the world attended the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. Migrant domestic workers’ rights were discussed at several side events, among them “Organizing for Women Migrant Rights” and “The Feminization of Migration and Globalization of Reproduction: Commodifying care and procreation across borders”.

  5. International Women’s Day 2014

    Women at work – where we are, where we want to be

    08 March 2014

    To mark International Women’s Day, the ILO reflects on the progress that has been made and what still needs to be done to achieve gender equality in the workplace. Follow two women, an Indian CEO and a US school teacher, whose experiences shed an interesting light on the common challenges facing women across the globe.

  6. Publication

    Corporate brochure on ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work

    15 March 2012

    Prevent HIV, Protect Human Rights at Work

  7. Video News Release

    100th International Women’s Day

    07 March 2011

    As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, we also remember the women who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York in 1911. One hundred years on, despite some progress there is still much to be done to achieve gender equality in the world of work.