A report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) showed that the employment of women internationally decreased by 4.2% between 2019 and 2020, that is 54 million position. The employment of men in the same period, however, decreased by 3%, that 60 million position.
Entitled “Building Forward Fairer: Women’s rights to work and at work at the core of the COVID-19 recovery,” the study was released on July 19. The study stated that, unlike men, most women will not get back their jobs during the recovery period. The study, also, showed that only 43% of working-age women internationally will be employed in 2021, compared to 69% of working-age men.
During the pandemic, women faired considerably better in countries that took measures to prevent them from losing their jobs and allowed them to re-enter employment as early as possible. They created or strengthened support for women entrepreneurs. In other cases, quotas were established to guarantee that women benefited from public employment programmes.
The report showed that investing in the care economy is important because the health, social work, and education sectors are important generators of jobs, especially for women, and because care leave policies and flexible working arrangements can encourage a more even division of work at home between women and men.
ILO suggests that the current gender gap can be addressed by seeking to provide a comprehensive, adequate, and sustainable social protection, and by promoting equal pay for work of equal value.
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