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Equal Pay
Ensuring that the work done by women and men is valued fairly and ending pay discrimination is essential to achieving gender equality. However, pay inequality continues to persist and gender pay gaps in some instances have stagnated or even increased.
Domestic Workers of the World Unite!
"Look deep in your hearts": making a global domestic workers' movement -- "Dignity overdue": tracing a movement -- Getting "on the map": global policy as an activist stage -- "First to work; last to sleep": central policy debates -- "My mother was a kitchen girl": mobilizing strategies among domestic workers -- "Put yourself in her shoes": NGO, union, and feminist allies -- "A little bit of liberation": moving beyond rights
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Making the Woman Worker
Founded in 1919 along with the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) establishes labor standards and produces knowledge about the world of work, serving as a forum for nations, unions, and employer associations. Before WWII, it focused on enhancing conditions for male industrial workers in Western, often imperial, economies, while restricting the circumstances of women's labors. Over time, the ILO embraced non-discrimination and equal treatment. It now promotes fair globalization, standardized employment and decent work for women in the developing world. In Making the Woman Worker, Eileen Boris illuminates the ILO's transformation in the context of the long fight for...
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
Indigenous and tribal peoples represent about five per cent of the world's population but over 15 per cent of the world's poor. The widening of inequalities in multi-ethnic societies with indigenous and tribal populations highlights the fact that conventional anti-poverty policies fail to address the roots of their social and economic exclusion or recognise their needs, aspirations and rights. This publication contains details of an ILO audit of 14 poverty reduction strategy papers which examine the position of indigenous and tribal populations in a range of countries including Bangladesh, Kenya, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Vietnam and Zambia.
