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This toolkit is designed to address the challenges faced by trade unions in recruiting and retaining female members, and in ensuring that trade union policies reflect gender equality goals.

The kit is divided into six booklets:

• booklet one suggests ways in which trade unions could recruit more female members and increase women's participation in order to promote more gender equal internal structures
• booklet two explores how gender equality can be promoted through the collective bargaining process
• booklet three discusses how to undertake negotiations to protect workers and promote equality of opportunity, particularly around issues such as sex discrimination
• booklet four highlights the challenges of protecting and organising workers in the informal sector, or those that fall outside of labour legislation such as homeworkers, migrant workers and part-time workers
• booklet five deals with issues of diversity and considers how space may be made in unions for a range of voices including youth, the elderly, those with disabilities, lesbian and gay workers, and ethnic minority and indigenous peoples
• booklet six focuses on how trade unions could link up with civil society actors to promote female workers' rights.

Summary written in collaboration with BRIDGE and Siyanda

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