Global Employment Trends for Women March 2009: ILO
The Global Employment Trends 2009 examined the most current information available in orderto assess the impact of the financial crisis and slowdown in world economic growth on jobs andwhat we could expect from several possible scenarios for the way the situation might evolve in theyear ahead. This issue of the Global Employment Trends for Women looks at the gender aspects of thisimpact, and updates indicators on the situation of women in labour markets around the world.
This report reconfirms that gender inequality remains an issue within labour markets globally. Women suffer multiple disadvantages in terms of access to labour markets, and often do not have the same level of freedom as men to choose to work. Gender differences in labour force participation rates and unemployment rates are a persistent feature of global labour markets. In2008, an estimated 6.3 per cent of the world’s female labour force was not working but looking forwork, up from 6.0 per cent in 2007, while the corresponding rate for males was 5.9 per cent in 2008,up from 5.5 per cent in 2007.
Source:ILO
