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Gender equality missing in labor market, according to ILO
21-8-2017
The International Labor Organization (ILO) revealed that the rate of unemployment among women has exceeded men’s during 2015, reaching 41.6% for women aged 15 to 19 years against 18.3% for men of same age group. The ILO report released last week on challenges of youth employment and policies of several countries around the world to help young people find appropriate jobs, has indicated the unemployment rates among young people as follows: women (aged 20- 24 years) at 24.2%, women (aged 25-29 years) at 10.5%, compared with 12.9% and 6.2% respectively among men of the same age group. According to the report, the gap was even larger when examining the rates of youth from both genders who were either jobless or not in the process of learning or training. The reported rates were: 7.4% (women aged 15-19 years); 26.7% (women aged 20-24 years) and 40.6% (women aged 25-29 years), significantly beating respective 4.3%, 7.3% and 6.8% rates among men. In the economic sectors, the ILO report has shown that the overwhelming majority of employed young men and women (namely 91.2% of women and 81.1% of men), work in the services sector, followed by industry with a large margin (6.8% of women, 16.5% of men) and agriculture (2.0% women, 2.5% men). Excerpts from the ILO report were published in the weekly bulletin of Credit Libanais Bank. )Al Mustaqbal, August 20, 2017 (
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