Analyses the food manufacturing sector in India, focusing on the production of bakery products, savouries and fish products in the city of Mumbai.

Provides an overview of the street trading sector in South Africa, examines organizational issues and investigates the strategies of three organizations: the Informal Trade Management Board, the Gauteng Hawkers Association and the Self Employed Women's Union. Discusses how to strengthen the...

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.

Examines the existing gap between the positions of female and male workers and opportunities open to women and men. Highlights the costs to society of inequality and suggests policies that could be adopted by governments and other measures to promote gender equality.

Working paper presenting a framework for data collecting and data analysis of the social roles of women relevant to the understanding of a range of demographic aspects and employment issues - considers conceptual and methodological difficulties, social anthropological approaches to role...

Reviews the overal institutional frameworks as well as the policy and legislative environment having a bearing on employment and economic opportunities for women in the context of globalization.

Focuses on women's and men's division of labour between paid work and unpaid care work and its effects on gender equality with respect to decent work outcomes, and one's ability and power to make and act on choices; its interconnection with individual and family poverty; and on how economic and...

Describes the magnitude of youth unemployment around the world and considers the economic, social and individual costs. Examines the role of mainstream education and training in promoting employability and investigates good practices in some 50 examples of innovative training programmes and...

Based on survey of 1,115 women and on data from national household surveys conducted in 1980, 1985 and 1989.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the impact of microelectronics on employment in offices and service sectors, USA 1975-1985, with projections to 2000 - studies trends in technological change, management attitudes and employees attitudes; examines employment forecasts for 1960 to 1980 incl....