This report highlights the importance of unpaid work which is largely dominated by cooking, cleaning and caring, and is an important contributor to societal well-being in ways that differ both between countries and between men and women in different countries. The contribution of unpaid...
The document presents a special chapter of the 2013 OECD statistics panorama on the topic of sex equality in the sharing of time of unpaid work. This is the most complete statistical publication of the OECD and it provides data covering quite a long period. These statistics could be considered as...
The report provides a picture of where women stand today in the world of work and how they have progressed over the past 20 years. It examines the global and regional labour market trend and gaps, including in labour force participation rates, employment-to-population rates and unemployment rates...
Entrepreneurship is more and more presented as a relevant way to fight unemployment and the worsening condition of salaried employment. Women who are affected by underemployment (part-time jobs) and are paid less than salaried men, only represent 30% of company creators. The objective to reach th...
This report focuses on the importance of gender equality in economic rights and independence, including access to employment, appropriate working conditions and control over economic resources. The report analyses the effects of part-time work and self-employment, on the economic independence of ...
This report examines the situation of women in poverty and employment in London, one of the world´s largest and most expensive and diverse cities.The report examines the effects of inequality on women, particularly with regard to the following factors: Poverty, London, Spending and Employme...
This document is a useful resource for anyone seeking information and data on gender equality in the Nordic countries.It provides figures, information and numbers on some important areas of life and society, such as: demography, family, healthcare, education, labour market, pay gap, political par...
Part time work isone important challenge to Gender equality in the labour market—a key topic in the Nordic cooperation on gender equality 2011-2014. It is more common among women than men and affects their economic opportunities at the individual level and the gender equality in the labour ...
The No. 318 of the Charter of the French Economic Observatory (OFCE) - Sciences Po Centre of Research on Economy analyses the effects of the crisis on the labour market of women and men and it shows that the situation has already enhanced through existing structural trends. Thus, althou...
This study examines the place of men in the reconciliation of work and family life. To this end, it explores the state of play of a sample of 160 business agreements on professional equality, with reference to men or fathers. Two fields of application of the issue have been identified: access of ...
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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