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ILO / INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY ADVANCER
STORY: ILO / INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY ADVANCER
TRT: 02:36
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGO 1700 GMT
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 7 MARCH 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
7 MARCH 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Close up, cover of report “Women in Work: Trends 2016”
2. Various shots, journalists and ILO economists at press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Johnson, Senior Economist, ILO:
“There’s been a significant progress in terms of education for women; however that’s not translated into progress in the world of work. We know that 586 million women globally are among the ranks of the own account workers and unpaid family workers. And what does this mean? This means they often have lower remuneration, lower access to skills and skills training, less of an access to social protection that many of us take advantage of. And also in terms of pension, because they are not paying into a pension they don’t have protection later in life.”
4. Med shot, press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Johnson, Senior Economist, ILO:
“Women are gaining in education, that education should be able to translate into their value added, in terms of the labour market, but what we are not seeing is the increase or on par when it comes to remuneration. Women are still earning less than that of their male counterparts. So the report says we are not doing enough, we need to take this on sooner and have more of an impact.”
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Florence Bonnet, Senior Economist, ILO :
“The most striking is that the advances in education are not translated into the labour market, that is, the situation of women is still quite dark compared with men on the labour market. It starts with lower employment rates: 46 percent for women, 72 percent for men.”
FILE – NOVEMBER 2015, ZAMBIA
7. Various shots, women clearing weeds with hoe
FILE – 2014, UGANDA TUNISIA
8. Med shot, women in white lab coat discusses with agriculture worker in greenhouse
FILE – DECEMBER 2015, COLOMBIA
9. Various shots, female sweet factory workers at work
FILE - FEBRUARY 2016, TUNISIA
10. Various shots, women, jam makers, peel oranges to make marmalade
FILE – NOVEMBER 2014, MONTENEGRO
11. Various shots, female office manager speaks with male colleagues,
FILE - NOVEMBER 2014, FIJI
12. Various shots, woman, magazine editor discusses layout with printer in printing house
13. Wide shot, magazine editor walks past reception of printing house
Despite some modest gains in some regions in the world, millions of women are losing ground in their quest for equality in the world of work, according to a new report prepared by the International Labour Organization (ILO) as part of the ILO’s Women at Work Centenary Initiative.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March), the ILO is publishing a new report, “Women at Work: Trends 2016,” which examined data for up to 178 countries and concludes that inequality between women and men persists across a wide spectrum of the global labour market.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Johnson, Senior Economist, ILO:
“There’s been a significant progress in terms of education for women; however that’s not translated into progress in the world of work. We know that 586 million women globally are among the ranks of the own account workers and unpaid family workers. And what does this mean? This means they often have lower remuneration, lower access to skills and skills training, less of an access to social protection that many of us take advantage of. And also in terms of pension, because they are not paying into a pension they don’t have protection later in life.”
What’s more, the report shows that over the last two decades, significant progress made by women in education hasn’t translated into comparable improvements in their position at work.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Johnson, Senior Economist, ILO:
“Women are gaining in education, that education should be able to translate into their value added, in terms of the labour market, but what we are not seeing is the increase or on par when it comes to remuneration. Women are still earning less than that of their male counterparts. So the report says we are not doing enough, we need to take this on sooner and have more of an impact.”
SOUNDBITE (French) Florence Bonnet, Senior Economist, ILO :
“The most striking is that the advances in education are not translated into the labour market, that is, the situation of women is still quite dark compared with men on the labour market. It starts with lower employment rates: 46 percent for women, 72 percent for men.”
At the global level, the employment gender gap has closed by only 0.6 percentage points since 1995, with an employment-to-population ratio of 46 percent for women and almost 72 percent for men in 2015.
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