Resources on Gender equality
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Article
ILO COOP/SSE Chiefs across time
03 November 2020
This page provides bibliographies of the chiefs and heads of the ILO's Cooperatives Unit since its establishment in 1920.
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Bloomberg News
The Pandemic’s Gender Bias Needs Urgent Fixing
14 May 2020
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Deccan Herald
Will coronavirus make the gender pay gap worse?
31 March 2020
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Article
Mind the gap: Differing perspectives of men and women economists may affect policy outcomes
12 June 2018
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A cooperative 2030 series
Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 - Cooperative contributions to SDG 5
08 March 2018
This brief is part of the Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 series produced by the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC). Through a series of 17 briefs, one for each Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), COPAC hopes to raise awareness about the significant contributions of cooperative enterprises towards achieving the 2030 Agenda in a sustainable, inclusive and responsible way, and encourage continued support for their efforts. This brief in the series focuses on SDG 5 – achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls.
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Gender and European Economic Policy
Survey of European economists finds sizable gender gaps in opinions
05 February 2018
Male and female economists in Europe hold different views on core precepts and methods as well as policy, according to a study based on a survey of economists in EU countries. Two US academics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an ILO expert authored the report.
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Event
Women’s Economic Empowerment: the case for equal pay for work of equal value
Side event organised by ILO and Governments of Belgium and Brazil, during the sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61) which will take place at the UN Headquarters in New York from 13 to 24 March 2017.
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Event
Launch of the Equal Pay Platform of Champions
Side event organised by UN Women, ILO and Governments of Iceland and Switzerland
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Cooperatives
When work is more than “just a job”
02 July 2015
As the world celebrates the International Day of Cooperatives, ILO News looks at how one cooperative in Brooklyn, New York, is offering migrants a dignified and sustainable way to make a decent living.
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News
Women Migrant Rights discussed at the 59th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
09 March 2015
Representatives of Member States, UN entities and ECOSOC-accredited NGOs from different regions of the world attended the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. Migrant domestic workers’ rights were discussed at several side events, among them “Organizing for Women Migrant Rights” and “The Feminization of Migration and Globalization of Reproduction: Commodifying care and procreation across borders”.