Resources on Gender equality

  1. Publication

    Public investment in care services in Argentina. Coverage of deficits, employment generation, fiscal efforts and economic impacts

    17 July 2023

    Based on the methodology developed by ILO-UN Women (2021), this study provides the results of an exercise to estimate the deficits in meeting the demand for care in the country (coverage and quality, including staff working conditions) for each of the sub-sectors (education, health and long-term care), as well as the investments needed to reverse this, and the economic and employment implications of expanding and strengthening care policies in a comprehensive manner in a future scenario up to 2030.

  2. © A. Guyot / ILO 2024

    Voices

    I am not a madman, I am an early childhood teacher

    06 September 2022

    Federico Trotta has overcome prejudice and stigma to become an early childhood teacher in Buenos Aires, Argentina – a profession that many believe is a “feminine” career.

  3. G7 Summit

    ILO Director-General warns G7 Summit on great divergence

    27 June 2022

    In his statement to the G7 Summit in Germany, ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, says pandemic and conflict have widened divergence between industrialized and developing countries. Raises concern over inequalities within countries, including gender gaps.

  4. Project

    Spotlight Initiative in Argentina

    08 June 2020

  5. Convention 190

    More action needed to end violence and harassment in the world of work

    06 March 2020

    The ILO calls on all countries to ratify ILO Convention 190 to end violence and harassment in the world of work once and for all.

  6. Cooperatives and the World of Work Series No. 12

    Waste pickers’ cooperatives and social and solidarity economy organizations

    20 August 2019

    Waste pickers make significant contributions to public health, sanitation, and the environment by promoting resource circulation and reducing the amount of landfill. However, they are often not legally recognized as workers and suffer from poor working conditions and lack of social protection. This brief highlights the role of waste pickers' cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy organizations (SSEOs) in integrating and formalizing the work of waste pickers in the recycling value chain and improving their working conditions.

  7. Publication

    Women at Work in G20 countries: Policy action since 2017

    11 June 2018

    Report prepared by the ILO and OECD for the 2nd meeting of the G20 Employment Working Group (Geneva, 11 – 12 June 2018)

  8. Publication

    Universal social protection for children: Argentina

    09 August 2017

  9. Discrimination: PRIDE Project

    Gender identity and sexual orientation: Promoting rights, diversity and equality in the world of work (PRIDE) Project

    01 January 2015

  10. Publication

    Desk review of research on HIV/AIDS in the world of work

    31 July 2012

    This desk review was conducted by ILO/AIDS as part of the Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV workplace policies/programmes and private sector engagement (IATT/WPPS). It is based primarily on the research documents shared by the IATT members, covering vulnerability studies, stigma and discrimination studies, impact and cost-benefit studies.