This book helps us to better understand the problems women face in rising through the ranks and securing top positions, and offers some useful strategies for shattering the glass ceiling. It examines current gender inequalities in the labour market and in political and social life.

Outlines initiatives that employers and employers' organizations can take to stimulate youth employment. Describes measures in the areas of: creating a positive environment for job creation; enhancing employability; promoting youth entrepreneurship; and promoting equality at work for young women...

Provides a basis for understanding the nature of workplace violence and suggests ways of preventing. Focuses on those data, experiences and publications which best help to explain and interpret the roots of violence at work, and to promote proactive initiatives.

Addresses the relevance, responsiveness, added value, coherence, effectiveness and efficiency of ILO support, as well as internal coordination and management for youth employment in a selection of countries and at the global level. It also takes stock of the scale and content of ILO's work...

Argues that achieving the ILO's decent work agenda requires that the conceptualization of employment be given a human face. Giving employment a human face will generate a richer intellectual perspective in which work is rooted in broader objectives than efficiency, and in which human rights and...

Provides a basis for understanding the nature of workplace violence and suggests ways of preventing it in the future. Focuses on those data, experiences and publications which best help to explain and interpret the roots of violence at work, and to promote proactive initiatives.

A compilation of good OSH practices in terms of national OSH frameworks, enforcement, outreach, training and research developed in recent years in ASEAN member countries.