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ILO / WESO WOMEN REPORT
STORY: ILO / WESO WOMEN REPORT
TRT: 1:54
SOURCE: ILO TV
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
RESTRICTIONS: EMBARGO UNTIL 20:00 GMT 14 JUNE 2017
DATELINE: 14 JUNE 2017, PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, press conference room Palais des Nations
2. Close up, report cover
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Deborah Greenfield, Deputy-Director general for Policy, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Gender gaps in the world of work are widespread, persistent and substantial, and that even modest progress in closing these gaps would bring significant benefits.”
4. Close up, report cover
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Deborah Greenfield, Deputy-Director general for Policy, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Women have limited access to the labour market. In 2017, the global labour force participation for women was just over 49 percent and that is 27 percentage points lower than the rate for men. This is expected to remain unchanged in 2018.”
6. Med shot, dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Deborah Greenfield, Deputy-Director general for Policy, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“Globally the unemployment rate for women stands at 6.2 percent, that is 0.7 percentage points higher than for men. Once in a job a woman does not have the same access to quality employment as men, in terms of occupation, pay, hours of work -both paid and unpaid- and social protection coverage, just to name a few of these deficits.”
8. Close up, report issues piled up
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Tobin, senior economist and lead author of the report, International Labour Organization (ILO):
“The World Employment and Social Outlook Trends for Women 2017 finds that if we can close the widespread gaps in the labour market between men and women we could raise global GDP by 5.8 Trillion dollars and this would also improve the wellbeing of women because many women, some 70 percent would prefer to be in paid employment.”
10. Wide shot, journalists at the presser
Six trillion dollars would be added to the global economy, if just 25 percent more of the world's women entered the labour market in the next decade according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO).
The World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO) – Trends for Women 2017 provides figures and analysis on women in the labour market, including the huge economic benefits that could be made by closing gender gaps.
Speaking today (14 Jun) to reporters in Geneva, ILO’s Deputy-Director general for Policy, Deborah Greenfield, said “gender gaps in the world of work are widespread, persistent and substantial, and that even modest progress in closing these gaps would bring significant benefits.”
She noted that women have limited access to the labour market.
According to the ILO, in 2017, the global labour force participation for women was just over 49 percent and that is 27 percentage points lower than the rate for men and this is expected to remain unchanged in 2018.
Globally the unemployment rate for women stands at 6.2 percent, that is 0.7 percentage points higher than for men.
Greenfield said, “Once in a job a woman does not have the same access to quality employment as men, in terms of occupation, pay, hours of work -both paid and unpaid- and social protection coverage, just to name a few of these deficits.”
During an interview also today in Geneva, Steven Tobin, lead author of the ILO report, said “the World Employment and Social Outlook Trends for Women 2017 finds that if we can close the widespread gaps in the labour market between men and women we could raise global GDP by 5.8 Trillion dollars and this would also improve the wellbeing of women because many women, some 70 percent would prefer to be in paid employment.”
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