This year, the theme of International women s Day is Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future for Covid-19 World . As we celebrate the day, our thoughts are with the millions of people afflicted with the contagion Covid-19, the precious lives lost and livelihoods destroyed. The pandemic demonstrated once again the role women play during crisis situations in taking on extra work burden, caring for the family, persevering against all odds and providing the leadership that sustain families, yet remain unrecognised and undervalued.
In Bangladesh, the struggle for gender equality has been long and arduous. The political, social and economic progress women have achieved in the last 20 years is in stark contrast to the high number of violence and abuse they suffer, both within families and outside. During lockdown, women faced increased domestic violence demonstrating the unequal power relations and their low status within families. Household chores including productive activities a
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Viviene Taylor on Thursday said gender equality is essential, explaining that there is a need for political will at all levels, and adequate resources to implement plans to achieve women’s development.
Working hard and not being counted? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa on redefining employment
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In 2013, the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) profoundly changed international labor statistics standards: One important change (among many) is that going forward, only work done for the purpose of pay or profit is considered employment. Producing outputs only or mainly intended for one’s own or family consumption, common among smallholder farmers in many developing countries, no longer counts towards employment or labor force participation. Instead, this type of activity is being reported under a separate indicator of “own-use production work”. The revised standards, which are gradually being rolled out in national surveys and thus finding their way into official statistics, change the status of many smallholder farmers from “employed” to “not employed” but “engaged in own use production work , with signi
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