Global Employment Trends for Woman,March 2009
ILO
6 Mar 2009
ILO warns economic crisis could generate up to 22 million more unemployed women in 2009, jeopardize equality gains at work and at home
The Global Employment Trends 2009 examined the most current information available in order to assess the impact of the financial crisis and slowdown in world economic growth on jobs and what we could expect from several possible scenarios for the way the situation might evolve in the year ahead. This issue of the Global Employment Trends for Women looks at the gender aspects of this impact, 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 market sglobally. Women suffer multiple disadvantages in terms of access to labour markets, and often donot 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 for work, 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.
