Work and employment
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- A View Over Discrimination And Harassment Situation of Daily Unskilled Female Workers in Work Place in Bangladesh
- T. Haque / 2003
- From the study it was found that most of the female unskilled laborers moved from village to town and had come from distressed family often discriminated /harassed by their employers and co-workers....
- Stitched Up: women workers in the Bangladeshi garment sector
- K Alam / War on Want, 2011
- In Bangladesh, women workers account for 85% of the total workforce in the garment industry. While some have viewed this as a positive step towards female emancipation, the reality is that women are e...
- Global economic crisis, gender and employment: the impact and policy response
- N. Otobe / 2011
- The paper analyses the gender dimensions of the impact of the global economic crisis on the world of work, highlighting the overall higher vulnerabilities and insecurity of women’s work than men’s. It...
- Financial crises and female work
- M.T. Choudhry / 2010
- The worst social consequences of the 2007-08 financial crisis and subsequent (2008-09) global recession are being felt this year (2010), because of the usual delays in the labour market effects. The i...
- Achieving equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities through legislation
- International Labour Organization , 2011
- With the entry into force of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in May 2008, countries around the world are attaching higher priority to promoting the rights of persons with ...
- Micro-credit intervention and its effects on empowerment of rural women: the BRAC experience
- 2009
- The study was designed to analyse rural women’s economic empowerment as the outcome of micro-credit interventions. The study was conducted in Shahjatpur and Jalalpur villages under Melandaha Upa...
- An exploratory study on child domestic workers in Egypt
- Y. Ahmed / terre des hommes, 2010
- In Egypt, an estimated 2 to 2.5 million children between the ages of 6-15 are working as street vendors, domestic workers, agricultural labourers, factory workers, laundry workers and helpers for mech...
- The world's women 2010 - trends and statistics
- Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2010
- The Beijing Platform for Action – the preeminent international guideline for improving the status of women – lists, among others, specific activities related to increased availability of s...
- Women's rights, women's resistance: lessons from the Honduran women's collective
- A. L. Restrepo / War on Want, 2011
- Over the past 30 years, hundreds of thousands of young women have spent their lives working day and night in the garment factories of Honduras. While jobs in the production plants of export processing...
- Up front: women at work
- War on Want, 2010
- Women make up roughly three quarters of the world’s poor. Despite often having to perform the duties of both a breadwinner and head of household, women earn a mere tenth of global income. Subjec...
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