Resources on Gender equality (Equality and discrimination)

Violence and Harassment

The United Kingdom ratifies the Violence and Harassment Convention

07 March 2022

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland becomes the 11th country in the world, and the 3rd country in Europe, to ratify Convention No. 190.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Liz Green, Executive Vice President, ICMIF

13 May 2021

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). On this occasion, the ILO interviewed Liz Green, Executive Vice President at ICMIF.

Article

ILO COOP Chiefs across time

03 November 2020

This page provides bibliographies of the chiefs and heads of the ILO's Cooperatives Unit since its establishment in 1920.

Bloomberg News

The Pandemic’s Gender Bias Needs Urgent Fixing

14 May 2020

Thomson Reuters

'Unpaid and unseen': Female workers bolster Britain's economy

04 March 2020

ILO Research Department Seminar

The partner Pay Gap

Despite women's recent gains in education and employment, husbands still tend to out-earn their wives. This article examines the relationship between the partner pay gap, i.e. the difference in earned income between married, co-resident partners, and life satisfaction. Contrary to previous studies, we investigate the effects of recent changes in relative earnings within couples as well as labour market transitions. Using seven waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we reveal that men exhibit an increase in life satisfaction in response to a recent increase in their proportional earnings while women, after accounting for employment changes, exhibit a decrease in life satisfaction. We also find secondary-earning husbands report lower average life satisfaction than primary-earning men, while such differences were not found for women. The analysis offers compelling evidence of the role of gendered norms in the sustenance of the partner pay gap.