Focuses on whether the tendency towards increased women's participation in labour markets has continued more recently and whether women have found enough decent and productive jobs to really enable them to use their potential in the labour market and achieve economic independence. Based on...

Provides an overview of the global economic and labour market impacts of the crisis as reflected in economic growth and labour market indicators up to and including 2009, with special attention on more vulnerable groups such as women and youth. The global overview sets the context in which...

This paper reviews the literature on female labour force participation and women’s employment, with the aim of better understanding the drivers of labour market outcomes. This paper also attempts to explore the situation of women globally and in South Asia, through an examination of long-term...

ILO pub. Article commenting on labour legislation protecting woman workers during pregnancy and providing for maternity leave in Western Europe - presents a comparison of measures adopted regarding employment security, occupational health, maternity benefit, and duration of paternity leave....