Author: International Labour OfficePublisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9789221108443
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
2nd version of a 1994 publication.
ABC of Women Workers' Rights and Gender Equality
Author: International Labour OfficePublisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9789221108443
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
2nd version of a 1994 publication.
Fetal Rights, Women's Rights
Author: Suzanne Uttaro SamuelsPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299145446
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, many private employers in the United States enacted fetal protection policies that barred fertile women--that is, women who had not been surgically sterilized--from working in jobs that might expose fetuses to toxins. In Fetal Rights, Women's Rights, Suzanne Samuels analyzes these policies and the ambiguous responses to them by federal and state courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, litigants, and interest groups. She poses provocative questions about the implicit links between social welfare concerns and paternalism in the workplace, including: are women workers or wombs? Placing the fetal protection controversy within the larger societal debate about gender roles, Samuels argues that governmental decision-makers confuse sex, which is based solely on biological characteristics, with gender, which is based on societal conceptions. She contends that the debate about fetal protection policies brought this ambiguity into stark relief, and that the response of policy-makers was rooted in assumptions about gender roles. Judges, legislators, and regulators used gender as a proxy, she argues, to sidestep the question of whether fetal protection policies could be justified by the biological differences between women and men. The fetal protection controversy raises a number of concerns about women's role in the workplace. Samuels discusses the effect on governmental policies of the ongoing controversy over abortion rights and the debates between egalitarian and relational feminists about the treatment of women at work. A timely and engrossing study, Fetal Rights, Women's Rights details the pattern of gender politics in the United States and demonstrates the broader ramifications of gender bias in the workplace.
ABC of Women Workers' Rights and Gender Equality
Author: International Labour OfficePublisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9789221108443
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
2nd version of a 1994 publication.
Collective Bargaining and Gender Equality
Author: Jane PillingerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781788210768
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book looks how trade unions and other membership based workers' organizations worldwide may support gender equality. Traditionally, collective agreements cover only male dominated industries and the public sector and sub-contracted workers are usually not included. However, collective bargaining agendas more often address issues such as workplace discrimination, equal pay for equal work and female leadership. The book considers new ways of organizing workers in informal employment and the support by trade unions in networks developed with ngo's. Concluded is that a broader perspective focusing on citizen's and labour rights is crucial for amplying the the effect of collective bargaining on gender equality in the future.
ABC of Women Workers' Rights & Gender Equality
Author: ABC of Women Workers' Rights and Gender Equality
Author: International Labour OrganizationPublisher:
ISBN: 9781280001994
Category : Sex discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This guidebook assists the general public in understanding the legal frameworks and socio-economic developments surrounding gender equality and women workers' rights in the world of work. Completely updated, it incorporates important information about the latest developments on gender issues such as girl child labourers, export processing zones, gender mainstreaming, the glass ceiling and many more. Each entry in the guide provides a clear definition and directs the reader to relevant laws, ILO conventions, and other topics for further research.
International Women’s Rights Law and Gender Equality
Author: Ramona VijeyarasaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000401774
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The law is a well-known tool in fighting gender inequality, but which laws actually advance women’s rights? This book unpacks the complex nuances behind gender-responsive domestic legislation, from several of the world’s leading experts on gender equality. Drawing on domestic examples and international law, it provides a primer of theory alongside tangible and practical solutions to fulfil the promise of the law to deliver equality between men and women. Part I outlines what progress has been made to date on eradicating gender inequality, and insights into the law’s potential as one lever in the global struggle for equality. Parts II and III go on to explore concrete areas of law, with case studies from multiple jurisdictions that examine how well domestic legislation is working for women. The authors bring their critical lens to areas of law often considered from a gender perspective – gender-based violence, women’s reproductive health, labour and gender equality quotas – while bringing much-needed analysis to issues often ignored in gender debates, such as taxation, environmental justice and good governance. Part IV seeks to move from a theoretical goal of greater accountability to a practical one. It explores both accountability for international women’s rights norms at the domestic level and the potential of feminist approaches to legislation to deliver laws that work for women. Written for students, academics, legislators and policymakers engaged in international women’s rights law, gender equality, government accountability and feminist legal theory, this book has tremendous transformative potential to drive forward legal change towards the eradication of gender inequality.
Time for Equality at Work
Author: Publisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9221128717
Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
This is the fourth global report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. It examines diverse forms of discrimination at work and considers various policy and practical responses to tackle this problem. The book finds that the benefits of eliminating discrimination in the workplace go beyond the individual level and extend to the economy and to society, leading to the efficient use of human resources and diverse talents, improved worker morale and motivation, better labour relations and productivity gains.
Trainers' Manual
Author: Women Workers' Rights and Gender Equality
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sex discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description