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Title: Decent Work, Decent Life for Women


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Decent Work, Decent Life for Women
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ITUC
  • Represents 170 million workers
  • in 158 countries and territories and
  • has 316 national affiliates

3
ITUC Equality Department
  • Gender and equality policies, programs and
    campaigns
  • Migrants - Domestic workers
  • Other issues
  • Racism and Xenophobia
  • LGTB Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
  • Elderly
  • Disabled

4
Women in trade unions
  • Average women membership rate is 40
  • Women are under represented in elected and
    leadership positions

5
ITUC Constitution
  • Aims at gender parity in leadership positions at
    national, regional and international level
  • Congress gender parity in trade union
    delegations is required
  • Executive Board 30 of its members are women

6
ITUC Womens Committee
  • Womens Committee and representation in the
    General Council and Executive Bureau
  • Once in the 4 years Womens Conference
    October 2009

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Womens Committees
  • National Centers
  • ETUC PERC
  • Americas
  • Africa
  • Asia/ Pacific
  • Trade unions
  • International/ regional
  • structures of the
  • Global Union
  • Federations

8
Global Facts and Figures
  • Today 40 of the world labour force are women
    (1.2 billion)
  • Women account for an increasing proportion (60 -
    70) of the worlds poor and working poor
  • Informal economy 60 or more are women workers
  • Export Processing Zones 80/90 of the workers
    are young women.
  • Global supply chains MNEs take advantage of
    less well paid and organised labour

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Global Facts and Figures
  • Women earn 10 of the worlds income. Work
    two-thirds of
  • the world unpaid work. Those in waged employment
    earn an
  • average of three- fourths of the male wage for
    the same work,
  • or work of equal value.
  • Gender Equality Report on 8 March
  • Global Pay Gap in 2008 16,5 - in 2009 22
  • Earnings between men and women widens with age
  • The higher the education the higher the negative
    impact
  • Trade union membership has a positive influence
    on the gender pay gap
  • Women receive less promotions and are less
    compensated for working overtime compared to
    men

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Decent Work, decent Life for Women
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Global Facts and Figures
  • violence and sexual harassment at or near the
    workplace 1 out of 3 women experienced violence
    in her life
  • women between 15 44 are more at risk of death/
    disability through domestic violence then
    through cancer, motor accidents, war and malaria.

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Global Policies on gender equality
  • ILO DECENT WORK AGENDA The four pillars of
    Decent Work
  • Standards and rights at work,
  • Employment creation
  • Social protection
  • Social dialogue.
  • ILO Conference 2009 Conclusions and
  • recommendations on gender equality
  • http//www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm
    /---relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_108259.
    pdf

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Global Policies on gender equality
  • Calling for a review of national labour
    legislation
  • Urging governments to ratify and implement ILO
  • Conventions e.g.
  • C. 183, Maternity protection
  • http//www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C183
  • C. 156, Workers with Family responsibilities
  • http//www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C156
  • C. 100, Equal Remuneration
  • http//www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C100
  • C. 111, Discrimination
  • http//www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C111

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Global Policies on gender equality
  • Urging governments to implement
  • CEDAW (United Nations Convention on the
    Elimination of all forms of Discrimination
    Against Women), international statement of
    womens rights signed by 185 countries agenda
    for national action
  • The Beijing Global Platform for Action which
    commits governments to ensuring that gender
    perspective is reflected in all our policies and
    programmes and the Beijing Declaration which
    includes Section F on Women and the Economy.

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Global Policies on gender equality
  • The UN Millennium Development Goals 2015
  • (1) Hunger and poverty refers to decent work -
    including women and youth
  • (3) Gender equality - increasing number of women
    in wage employment and
  • (5) maternal health

16
Global Campaign for Decent Work, Decent Life for
Women
  • Objectives
  • Decent work for women
  • Organising women workers and
  • achieving gender equality in trade union
    structures, policies and activities

17
Campaign
  • Previous achievements of International campaigns
    for women
  • Increase women membership - up to 150
  • Increase of women in elected positions
  • Unions intensified policies/ actions on gender
    equality at work e.g. maternity protection (183),
    child care, pay equity, protection from sexual
    harassment.  

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Since the launch of the Campaign on 8 March 2008
  • 102 National Centers in 64 Countries join the
    Campaign
  • Activities focus on
  • Maternity protection rights ILO Convention 183
  • Child care facilities, Work life balance ILO
    Convention 156
  • Pay Equity ILO Convention 100
  • Gender equality in trade unions

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Decent Work, decent Life for Women
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Campaign actions
  • Gender Equality at the centre of collective
    bargaining and social dialogue
  • More women in elected positions and increase of
    women membership rates

21
Campaign actions
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Campaign actions
  • Ratification/ implementation of ILO Conventions
    on gender equality
  • Encourage involvement at national level CEDAW,
    MDG, Beijing Platform of Action
  • UN Commission on the Status of Women
  • Conclusions of the ILO Conference on gender
    Equality - 2009

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Campaign Actions
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Campaign Actions
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Focusing on Key Dates
  • 8 March - International Womens Day
  • 7 October - World Day for Decent Work
  • 25 November - UN Day for Elimination of
  • Violence Against
    Women .

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Campaign Actions
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Achievements Current Campaign
  • Croatia, 2008 the Croatian parliament has
    approved a new gender equality law
  • Australia, 2009 Paid maternity leave for working
    mothers
  • Korea 2008 Legislation on Equal Employment and
    support for the Reconciliation of Work and Family
  • New Zealand, 2008 introduced legislation for
    breastfeeding breaks

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Achievements Current Campaign
  • Gender Pay Gap Report
  • World wide media coverage of the first ITUC
    report on the Gender Pay Gap on 8 March 2008
  • Major international organizations/ institutions
    start to include the issue into their annual
    reports (ILO, UN, NGOs).
  • The report is the most hit item on the ITUC
    website.

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Achievements Current Campaign
  • Decisions for Life Project
  • 2009 Reached 5000 young women in the service
    sector
  • Trade union Campaign teams Web journalist teams
    in 14 countries
  • Cooperation between ITUC UNI WageIndicator
    Foundation University of Amsterdam

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Campaign Methods used
  • Questionnaire/ reports media attention
  • Coalitions/ networking women in unions, women in
    parliament, NGO s
  • Preparing changes/ amendments to labor law/
    collective agreements
  • Organize discussions in trade unions to develop
    model clauses on gender equality for collective
    agreements
  • Training on gender equality
  • Organising women workers

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ITUC Materials on Gender Equality
  • Publications
  • ITUC Campaign Guide Decent Work, Decent Life for
    Women
  • Achieving Gender Equality, Trade Union Manual
  • Action Program on achieving gender equality in
    trade unions
  • Trade Unions say NO to Violence Against Women
  • Stopping Sexual Harassment at Work
  • Womens Charter

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ITUC Materials on Gender Equality
  • Reports
  • The Global Gender Pay Gap
  • Gender Inequality at Work
  • The Decent Work Agenda A Gender Perspective
  • Resolutions
  • Violence Against Women
  • Statements
  • For the UN Commission on the status of Women

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CAMPAIGN WEB PAGE AND E-MAIL LIST
  • Women Conference webpage
  • http//www.ituc-csi.org/spip.php?rubrique268
  • - click on equality, women
  • Campaign webpage
  • www.ituc-csi.org - click on equality
  • Email list marieke.koning_at_ituc-csi.org

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Decent Work, Decent Life for Women Campaign
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