Gender

Overview: • How to tackle the crisis - ILO tools and good practices • Gender Dimension • Employment • Migration

• Gender Dimension

  • Maintaining Gains for Women in Jobs Crisis (pdf 335 KB), International Organisation of Employers, 17 June 2009. Also available in •  French (pdf 332 KB)
  • In Africa, "Poverty Has a Female Face", The World Bank, 15 May 2009
  • WomenWatch: The gender perspectives of the financial crisis, WomenWatch, 2009
  • In Cambodia, women and children hit hardest by Economic Crisis, UNDP, 08 April 2009
  • Who pays the price? The impact of the global economic recession on women in developing countries (pdf 567 KB), Putting People First, March 2009
  • Rapid assessment of the impact of the financial crisis in Cambodia (pdf 354 KB), ILO Asia-Pacific Working Paper Series, March 2009
  • Submission to the NGLS Online Consultation for Inputs to the Stiglitz Commission, Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD), available from: Association for Women's Rights in Development website, March 2009
  • Agreed conclusions from the Commission on the Status of Women (pdf 56 KB) (advance unedited version), Fifty-Third Session, United Nations, New York, 13 March 2009
  • Expert Meeting on Mainstreaming gender in trade policy, UNCTAD, Geneva, 10-11 March 2009
  • The gender perspectives of the financial crisis, Papers from the Commission on the Status of Women, Fifty-Third Session, United Nations, New York, 05 March 2009
    See also: Gender perspectives of the financial crisis (pdf 26.3 KB)
    Also available in •  Français (pdf 32.6 KB) •  Español (pdf 30.3 KB)
  • The global financial crisis: assessing vulnerability for women and children (pdf 37 KB), World Bank, March 2009
  • Economic meltdown has a woman's face, By Amelita King DeJardin, Special to the The Japan Times, 8 March 2009
  • Women in 33 countries highly vulnerable to financial crisis effects, World Bank, 06 March 2009
  • Les femmes de 33 pays particulièrement exposées aux effets de la crise financière, Banque Mondiale, 06 March 2009
  • African women bear brunt of global crises, warn delegates at UN conference, UN News Centre, 04 March 2009
  • The Potential Impact of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis on Women and Gender Equality, UNESCO Future Forum, Paris, France, 02 March 2009

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• Employment

  • The Current Economic and Financial Crisis: A Gender Perspective , R. Antonopoulos, The Levy Economics Institute of bard College, May 2009
  • Paying the Price for the Economic Crisis (pdf 192.5 KB), Oxfam, March 2009
  • Gender (in)equality in the labour market: an overview of global trends and developments (pdf 304 KB), International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), March 2009
  • ILO warns economic crisis could generate up to 22 million more unemployed women in 2009, jeopardize equality gains at work and at home, ILO, 05 March 2009
  • Global Employment Trends for Women, 2009 (pdf 636 KB), ILO, March 2009
  • Women and recession: how will this recession affect women at work? (pdf 112 KB), Trades Union Congress, January 2009
  • World of Work Insight: The Underworked Solution: Women and the Talent Crunch, Manpower, January 2009
  • Recession Report: January 2009 - Women and recession, Trades Union Congress, 26 January 2009

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• Migration

  • Asian migrant women face vulnerabilities in the Arab States, UNDP, 09 March 2009