PHA-Exchange> Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty

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Untitled StationeryFrom: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 


Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty

 

Martha Chen . Joann Vanek . Francie Lund . James Heintz with Renana Jhabvala . Christine Bonner

UNIFEM United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005 

 

. Overview (248KB) http://www.unifem.org/attachments/products/PoWW2005_overview_eng.pdf 

 

. Publication in Full (1.5MB) http://www.unifem.org/attachments/products/PoWW2005_eng.pdf 

 

. News Release http://www.unifem.org/news_events/story_detail.php?StoryID=295 

. Press briefing to launch the report (UN Webcast) http://www.unifem.org/news_events/story_detail.php?StoryID=297 

"..This report.argues that unless governments and policymakers pay more attention to employment, and its links to poverty, the campaign to make poverty history will not succeed, and the hope for gender equality will founder on the reality of women's growing economic insecurity.

It provides the latest available data on the size and composition of the informal economy and compares national data on average earnings and poverty risk across different segments of the informal and formal workforces in six developing countries and one developed country to show the links between employment, gender and poverty. It looks at the costs and benefits of informal work and their consequences for women's economic security. Finally, it provides a strategic framework - with good practice examples - for how to promote decent work for women informal workers, and shows why strong organizations of workers in the informal economy are vital to effective policy reforms...: 

Contact information: Leigh Pasqual, Media Specialist
UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
New York 1-212-9065463 Email:  leigh.pasqual at undp.org 



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