Global Campaign

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• Global Campaign
• for Decent Work,
• Decent Life for
• Women

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Global Campaign forDecent Work, Decent Life for
Women

• Objectives
• Decent work for women
• Gender equality in trade union structures,
  policies and activities

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Decent Work

• Access to productive work in conditions of
• freedom, equality, security, and dignity.
• The four pillars of Decent Work
• 1. Standards and rights at work,
• 2. Employment creation
• 3. Social protection
• 4. Social dialogue.

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Background of the Campaign

• 1.2 billion women are
• working today (40)
• yet women
• earn 12 to 60 less and do not have the same
  level of social protection as their male
  counterparts
• account for an increasing proportion (60 - 70)
  of the worlds poor and working poor

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Background of the Campaign

• Face a higher level of unemployment than ever
  before (81.8 million women in 2006)
• Are concentrated in low-paid, unprotected,
  temporary or casual work
• lack maternity protection rights and face
  violence and sexual harassment at or near the
  workplace

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Why Campaigns targeting women work

• Desk studies and surveys of previous
• campaigns show e.g.
• Increase in women membership rates up to 150
• Increase of women in elected positions
• Unions pushed to prioritise advocacy work on
  gender equality at work e.g. maternity
  protection, child care, pay equity and protection
  from sexual harassment.  

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Campaign actions 1

• Calling for a review of national labour
• legislation and urging governments to
• ratify and implement ILO Conventions e.g.
• C. 183, Maternity protection
• C. 156, Workers with Family responsibilities
• C. 100, Equal Remuneration
• C. 111, Discrimination

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Campaign Actions 2

• CEDAW (United Nations Convention on the
  Elimination of all forms of Discrimination
  Against Women), international statement of
  womens rights signed by 185 countries
• 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.
• The UN Millennium Development Goals

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Campaign Actions 3

• Gender Equality in trade unions
• Policy coherence of affiliated national centres
  with the ITUC Constitution
• Encouraging women to stand for elections
• Organizing women workers
• Inclusion of gender equality issues on the
  collective bargaining agenda and social dialogue

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Since the launch of the Campaign on 8 March 2008

• 82 National Centers in 56 Countries joined the
  Campaign
• Events and marches took place to kick of the
  Campaign focusing on
• Maternity protection rights
• Child care facilities,
• Pay Equity
• Work life balance
• Gender equality in trade unions

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52nd Session of the UN Comission on the Status of
Women

• 40 ITUC-PSI-EI women trade union delegation
  negotiated successfully for the inclusion of
  decent work in the Agreed Conclusions
• The delegation lobbied successfully on the basis
  of the trade union Statement on Investing in
  Decent Work, Decent Life for Women.

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Burkina Faso
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South Korea
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Croatia
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ITUC Global Gender Wage Gap Report
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ITUC Gender Wage Gap Report

• Worldwide media coverage - released on 7 March
  2008 in gt 20 countries
• Analysis of pay gap in 63 countries 30 European,
  33 across the rest of the world

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ITUC Asia Pacific
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International Women's Day panel organized by the
ILO on 7 March

• Global Union message on pay equity and the role
  of collective bargaining in reducing the gender
  pay Gap
• Presentation of the ITUCs Gender Wage Gap Report

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Visualizing the global pay gap
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Visualizing the European pay gap
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ITUC GlobalGender Wage Gap Report

• Worldwide pay gap of 16.5
• More educated women face a bigger pay gap
  compared to men with similar education
• Trade union membership has a positive influence
  on the gender pay gap.

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Belgium
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Global data 2

• Pay gap is higher in female-dominated work
  environments than in typical male dominated work
  environments
• Results generally more positive in Europe,
  Oceania and Latin America, with Europe taking the
  lead
• Data deficiencies in a number of countries,
  particularly across Africa and Asia

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Montenegro
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Global data 3

• Europe -
• Average pay gap of 14.5 per cent
• Overall decline in pay gap over the last decade
• Job segregation by gender has a negative effect
  on pay gap (i.e. UK)
• Americas -
• North America lack of official data
• Larger pay gap in Canada (27.5) USA (22.4)
  than world average
• Latin America mixed picture due to large
  informal economies

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Global data 4

• Oceania -
• Pay gap lower than world average
• Australia 14.1 New Zealand 13.8
• Mixed picture on progress
• Africa -
• Insufficient data
• Asia -
• Pay gap significantly higher than world average
• Large variation due to the nature of individual
  country labour markets and quality of official
  data, i.e. Bahrain (-40), Japan (33.4),
  Mongolia (16.1) and Sri Lanka (7.3)

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Spain
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Methodological issues

• Defining the gender pay gap
• Calculating earnings
• Availability and reliability of data
• Sample size/response rate
• Type of employee
• Data collection

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Next Key Dates of the Campaign 2008-2009

• 7 October ITUC World Day for
  Decent Work
• 25 November UN Day for Elimination of
• Violence Against
  Women
• 8 March 2009

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CAMPAIGN WEB PAGE AND E-MAIL LIST

• Campaign webpage www.ituc-csi.org, click on
  equality and women for the Campaign Guide,
  Wage Gap Report and More
• Campaign email list send your email addresses
  to equality_at_ituc-csi.org
• World Day for Decent Work website
  www.ituc-csi.org, click on Campaigns

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• JOIN THE CAMPAIGN!
• Decent Work,
• Decent Life for Women
• equality_at_ituc-csi.org