Attacks on women’s sexual and reproductive rights in Iran

Women in Iran could face significant restrictions on their use of contraceptives and be further excluded from the labour market unless they have had a child, if two proposed laws are approved, says a new Amnesty International report out today. You Shall Procreate: Attacks on women’s sexual and reproductive rights in Iran details the extreme lengths the Iranian authorities are going to in order to encourage...

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Quality child care: an essential service to support women at work

Many women outside the job market often say that they cannot do paid work because they must take care of their children. Strong evidence has indeed shown that where affordable and high-quality childcare is available, women’s labour force participation increases.Chile, for example, has seen remarkable progress in the number of children covered by childcare services over recent decades. As a result of a...

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Women´s economic inequality

“We want an economic system that allows people to live with dignity, not in slavery. We’re not asking to live like CEOs, but to at least get paid a living wage. Corporates are earning millions, even billions a year.” Sopheary, Workers Information Centre, Cambodia http://www.actionaid.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/womens_rights_on-line_version_2.1.p...

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Ensure that ending women’s economic inequality is high on the agenda of the new Sustainable 5/5

Development Goals All development partners should: • Support a strong, stand-alone gender equality and women’s rights goal with targets on redistribution of women’s unpaid care work, control over economic resources and assets, and women’s full and equal participation at all levels of decision making • Support an ambitious goal on full and productive employment and decent work, alongside targets to ensure...

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Promote women’s voice, agency and leadership at all levels 4/5

Governments and international Institutions should:  • Promote women’s leadership, voice and agency at all levels, from household to international spheres, including through engaging with trade unions, civil society and feminist organisations in economic policy making processes and spaces, such as in national development planning, meetings of the International Financial Institutions, G20, or the...

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Ensure that the economy works for women, not against them, and end the pursuit of growth at any cost 3/5

 Governments and international Institutions should: • Systematically review the impact of macroeconomic and fiscal policies on women and implement policies to redress inequality in women’s work, alongside challenging discriminatory social norms and gender stereotyping that underpins this. • Design progressive tax regimes and institute genderresponsive budgeting that enhance women’s economic rights,...

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Recognise, reduce and redistribute unpaid care responsibilities that fall disproportionately on women 2/5

Governments and international Institutions should: • Recognise the contribution of unpaid care work to the economy and invest in infrastructure, time-saving technologies and quality public services such as childcare, care for the elderly, and healthcare. • Institute family-friendly policies that promote women’s opportunities to access and enjoy decent work, and enable women and men to balance work with...

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Guarantee women’s access to and enjoyment of decent work 1/5

Governments and international institutions should:  • Adhere to globally agreed human and labour rights standards by introducing and implementing legislation and policies that guarantee and promote women’s access to decent and safe employment, whether in the formal or informal sector. This should include a living wage, secure contracts, access to social protection (such as parental and sick leave,...

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LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN – STATEMENT BY WOMEN’S, FEMINIST, & OTHER CIVIL SOCIETY NGO’S

Direct Link to Full 3-Page Statement: CSW59 DECLARATION: A WEAK DOCUMENT TO ADDRESS THE WOMEN’ S AND GIRLS CHALLENGES The NGOs signing this Statement express our concern about the Political Declaration approved by Members States on Monday, 9 March in the United Nations, in the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW); discussed without the participation of the majority of Women’s,...

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Sign to Urge Chinese Government to Release them Immediately!

We are feminists all over the world. We are shocked to know that five Chinese young feminist activists were detained right before the International Women’s Day, 2015, because they planned to campaign for anti- sexual harassment on buses. Twenty years ago, China hosted the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, signed for Beijing Platform for Action, and made a commitment to promote women’s rights and gender...

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Women in developing countries and all over the world need and demand change today.

The case for action to lift the status of women in the economy is not new. However, despite its potential to yield benefits for women, the economy and for wider society, making women’s economic equality a reality is still a far-off dream. In 2014 The Global Gender Gap Report by the World Economic Forum confirmed that progress remains excruciatingly slow and huge gender gaps continue to divide across and...

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Women’s voices: silenced and ignored IV/IV

That fact that women’s work is subsidising the world economy at a massive scale is also a reflection of gender discrimination at all levels of decision-making as well as the fact that voices of human rights defenders, both women and men, are silenced and ignored. All over the world advances in respect for women and worker’s rights have been achieved largely as a result of the work of feminist organisations...

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Financing for gender equality: short of the mark III/IV

In recent years, states, donors and businesses have all talked about investing more in women and girls. But while more money to support women and girls is of course a good thing, these investments have too often not materialised or have had very limited impacts. For example, the OECD DAC Network on Gender Equality shows that despite good intentions, donors’ investments in women and the economy have been...

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Caring for our people: not counted, not rewarded II/IV

Across countries, and regardless of income, women are excessively responsible for unpaid care work, while men are primarily engaged in market-based activities.  Care work includes cooking, cleaning, collecting firewood, taking care of children, the ill and the elderly. It is absolutely central to the proper functioning and wellbeing of societies, as well as to the reproduction of the workforce....

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Growth at any cost: economic policies fuel inequality in work I/II

Free trade and the rapid globalisation of markets, together with the expansion of many corporations’ supply chains in developing countries, have undoubtedly created unprecedented opportunities for women to access paid work. However, this has still far too often been on unequal and highly exploitative terms,  For instance, women in developing countries often work in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) that...

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Why is women’s work the worst?

The causes Women’s economic inequality is not natural or inevitable. The permanent subsidy to the global economy that poor women’s work represents is a human-made, structural problem: a direct consequence of policies, laws, systems and power structures that prevent women from achieving their true potential and living decently rewarded and dignified lives. There are at least four major structural causes that...

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