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, opportunities for women and men, and their participation in paid work. This paper focuses on two aspects of these global processes … investment; and second, the international migration of care services workers. These two aspects particularly illuminate women … globalization enhanced women's economic opportunities and the value of their labour vis-a-vis that of men or are these generating …
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overall higher vulnerabilities and insecurity of women's work than men's. Examines the gender-differentiated regional global … ILO data and information. Particular attention is paid to the impact on women workers in the export-oriented textile and … crisis, in order to promote more productive employment and decent work opportunities equally for women and men. …
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Focuses on women's and men's division of labour between paid work and unpaid care work and its effects on gender … individual and family poverty; and on how economic and social policies and institutions influence women's options by reducing or …
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of work among men and women, incl. access to employment, fairness of income, security at work, social protection, and … international bodies, and labour unions and women's organizations. …
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Focuses on country systems for regulating low-wage work.
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Explores the conceptual dimensions of decent work and discusses policy issues which can be addressed with decent work indicators. Describes a general approach to measuring decent work with statistical indicators and introduces eleven broad aspects of decent work.
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Describes projects of governments and nongovernmental organizations that support women's informal sector work and offer …
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Outlines the effects of development policies on gender inequality in developing countries from the early 1980s to 1992, and sets out an agenda for the 1990s.
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Reviews current knowledge concerning the relationship between gender inequalities and the economic liberalization policies that underpin globalization processes. Explores economic policy proposals and initiatives which aim to promote gender equity in the context of the world economy.
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