Egalité professionnelle
This work looks at the difficulties women face in a changing global economy. Globilization has recast gender relations and altered the status and life condition of women. While there has been progress in recent decades in engaging women in the global workforce, there has been considerably less advance on improving the conditions under which they work.
Gender equality in pay between men and women and been a difficult debate for several decades and is a concern shared by all countries. Indeed, female employment is crucial since it is the main driver of growth in the labor market. However, significant disparities remain and professional reasons are so diverse and varied as governments, through their policies and are actively to restore these disparities and thus to achieve behavior change
Equality between men and women of today
* Barriers to equality:
1. Finding of inequalities
It is worth mentioning some important inequalities :
women are working more...
Whether they live in industrialized or developing countries, in rural or urban settings, in general, women work longer hours than men. While data on the way men and women use their time are sparse, surveys conducted in recent years confirm the validity of this assertion across developing countries. Oxfam estimates that women work around 60 to 90 hours per week, and time-use surveys reveal that across a selection of developing countries in Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, women’s working hours exceed those of men, often by a wide margin
For many women, unpaid work in and for the household takes up the majority of their working hours, with much less time spent in remunerative employment. Data from urban areas in 15 Latin American countries reveal that unpaid household work is the principal activity for 1 in every 4 women; the corresponding ratio for men is 1 in every 200.
But even when they participate in the labour market for paid employment, women still