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International report: no significant progress on gender equality in the workplace
8-3-2019
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, which falls on March 8 of every year, ILO issued a report yesterday entitled, ‘A quantum leap for gender equality: For a better future of work for all’. According to the report, the work-related gaps have not seen any significant improvement for 20 years, and the difference in employment rates for men and women over the last 27 years has retreated only by less than two percentage points. The report has found that women in 2018, were still 26 percentage points less likely to be at a job than men. Women are still underrepresented in senior positions, with slight change in the last 30 years, the report attributed the main obstacle to achieving equality at work to the unpaid care and domestic work performed primarily by women. The ILO report pointed out that time spent in unpaid care work could take more than 200 years to achieve equality, stating that in the last 20 years, the amount of time spent by men on unpaid care and domestic work has increased by only 8 minutes a day. (For more on the ILO report, kindly visit the following link: (c.f: https://goo.gl/VA5JE). Meanwhile in Lebanon, the IFC- World Bank Group, hosted a conference to raise awareness about the vital role of the private sector in advancing gender equality and empowering women. The event was held in collaboration with the Global Compact Network Lebanon (GCNL), UN Women, the Beirut Stock Exchange and the Canadian Embassy. During the conference, president of GCNL, Dima Jamali, stressed that promoting the full participation of women in the workforce generates financial returns in the private sector, and enhances the environment, social norms and governance. On the other hand, members of the Lebanese Legislature yesterday dropped the power of urgency and acceleration for the amendment of Article 1003 of the Code of Civil Procedure, that which is related to the forcible imprisonment of a mother who refuses to hand over her son. (An Nahar, Al Akhbar, L’Orient Le Jour, March 7, 8, 2019)
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