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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear all, Throughout history, women have been making extraordinary contributions to their families,societies and the world at large. Some are well-known and some are not, nevertheless their contributions have been always special. Flyme team wishes you a very Happy Women’s Day! Our team highlighted some very critical data that you could see in the above video. This brings us to a thought – as we rejoice womanhood today why is our society still unfair to women in all the above aspect? There is a huge gender gap around the world, let it be in career or academics. On this special occasion of International Women’s Day we wish to draw your attention to the reality that we need to make this world a place which has equal rights for both men & women. Our team via this contest would like to challenge all the fans if they can change the numbers in the future. Contest Name: Would you be the change? Prize: All the participants will get 50 Forum points. Winners will be announced on 11th March 2016 Date: Start Date: 8th March 2016 End Date: 10th March 2016 What you need to do? What would you do in your own capacity to reduce the gender gap? Or How have you motivated a woman to be the change? Rules: 1. Submit your entries latest by 10th March 2016 2. One entry per member will be accepted Disqualify Rules: 1. Spamming the thread with unrelated content 2. Fake account support 3. Using fake images to participate in the contest Good luck! We can’t wait to hear your entries. And don’t forget to make this day special to the woman who is your guideling light. | |
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eliminate gender inequality in employment
Women’s work, both paid and unpaid, is critical to the survival and security of poor households and an important route through which households escape poverty. Moreover, paid employment is critical to women’s empowerment. In settings where women’s mobility is restricted, increased employment opportunities can improve women’s mobility and enable women to seek and access reproductive health care. It can also expose them to new ideas and knowledge and broaden the community with which they engage. In the 1980s and 1990s women’s overall economic activity rates increased everywhere, except in Sub-Saharan Africa, parts of Europe and Central Asia, and Oceania. Yet, despite these increasing economic activity rates, women’s status in the labor market remains significantly inferior to that of men’s worldwide. Gender inequalities exist in entry to work, conditions at work, and in exit from the labor market. Early marriage, early childbearing, and low education constitute barriers to women’s and girls’ labor market entry. These barriers are beginning to crumble with the creation of new employment opportunities in many countries and as women’s education levels rise. To further reduce barriers to entering employment, important strategies are increasing women’s access to post-primary and vocational and technical education and improving the quality of education. Of particular importance for adolescent girls’ participation and achievement in post-primary education is their enrollment and achievement in math, science, and other technical courses. One barrier to entry that has remained the most resistant to change is women’s responsibility for providing care for children, the elderly, and the sick. Studies from around the world indicate that the presence of young children and a lack of childcare options constrain women’s entry into paid employment and their job opportunities. Increased migration, the breakdown of extended families, and changing social arrangements in some parts of the world have made extended families a less reliable source of childcare than formerly, which necessitates other types of care services. Expansion of national policies and programs to provide support for care — of children, people with disabilities, and the elderly — is an important intervention to enable women to participate in paid employment. The governments of most industrialized countries accept some public responsibility for sharing the cost of rearing their nations’ children, and many governments have developed comprehensive family policies. Recognizing the value of early education, especially targeted to poor children, governments in many developing countries, including China and India, also support childcare and early education services. Yet, no single country provides the investment in care services that is required to fully meet the needs of women and their children. Filling this gap is essential for meeting Goal 3. With regard to the conditions at work, women’s status in the labor market is inferior to men’s in most countries of the world, according to key indicators such as occupational distribution, earnings, the nature and terms of employment, and unemployment. In the labor force women and men typically perform different tasks and are located in different industries and occupational sectors. Occupational segregation by sex is extensive in both developed and developing countries. Approximately half of all workers in the world are in occupations where at least 80 percent of workers are of the same sex. In many countries, occupational segregation is significantly higher for the least educated workers than for those with higher education. Gender gaps in earnings are among the most persistent forms of inequality in the labor market. In all countries men earn more than women, and this is true across different groups of workers (agricultural, services) and different types of earnings (monthly, hourly, salaried). Employment — both formal and informal — has become increasingly flexible in the past two decades with globalization. Numerous studies show women’s increased participation in temporary, casual, contract, and part-time labor in manufacturing. Although men are also affected by these trends, the percentage of women in “flexible” jobs greatly exceeds that of men. Gender differences are also apparent in unemployment, with women more likely to be unemployed than men in recent years. Studies from the Caribbean economies and transition economies show that women have experienced declines in access to jobs relative to men. To improve the nature and conditions of work, employment-enhancing economic growth is a prerequisite for low-income countries, coupled with social policy that eliminates discriminatory employment barriers. For poor women, especially those in rural areas, public employment guarantee schemes can be an important intervention for providing work and increasing income, although evaluations of country programs reveal a mixed track record. Public employment guarantee schemes can also be gender-biased. In many programs, women earn less than men, partly because they are excluded from higher-wage and physically difficult tasks. Women are also more susceptible to cheating and exploitation. For countries with large informal economies, one of the highest priorities to improve the conditions of work is social protection for workers in that sector. Social protection and safety net programs all too often exclude women by failing to account for gender differences in labor market participation, access to information, unpaid care responsibilities, and property rights. When programs do not account for these gender differences, women are more vulnerable to poverty and the risks associated with economic and other shocks to household livelihoods. Another avenue for increasing income for poor women is through microenterprise development. Microfinance programs have been a popular economic strategy over the past two decades to assist poor and landless women to enter self-employment or start their own business. In order to have greater impact, however, microfinance programs need to be coupled with other types of products and services, including training, technology transfer, business development services, and marketing assistance, among others. More attention also needs to be given to innovative savings and insurance instruments for low-income women. In both developed and developing countries, a common intervention to improve pay and working conditions is the passage and implementation of equal opportunity or antidiscrimination legislation. This includes family leave policies, equal pay and equal opportunity laws and policies, and legislation guaranteeing rights at work. Empirical evidence of the impact of each of these on women’s employment and on relative wages comes mostly from industrial countries and suggests that there have been some improvements, but these are conditional on the degree of enforcement and other factors. In light of current demographic trends, female vulnerability in old age has gained increasing importance. Women live longer than men and in most regions are more likely to spend time as widows, when they are more vulnerable to poverty than men. Because pension entitlements are predominantly through work, women’s responsibilities for unpaid care work, as well as their predominance in informal employment and seasonal and part-time jobs, restrict their access to the private pension-covered sector. In many countries, jobs in the public sector have historically been a major source of pensions; as the public sector has contracted (due to structural adjustment, privatization, and cuts in government spending), women have lost pension coverage. Many countries, especially in Latin America and in Eastern and Central Europe, are reforming their pension and social security programs. Gender equality has not been a high priority in these reform efforts. To protect retired women, it is important that the design of old age security systems take account of gender differences in earnings, labor force experience, and longevity. The specifics of pension reform vary across countries, and there are too few studies to draw clear conclusions about the effect of different types of pension programs on women. Nonetheless, it is clear that programs that have a redistributive component and that require fewer years of contributions are better able to protect women in old age. While opportunities for paid employment for women have increased in countries around the world, the nature, terms, and quality of women’s employment have not improved commensurately. Having access to paid work is critical to family survival, but it is not sufficient for reducing poverty or empowering women. Decent, productive work for all should be the goal. At the international level, a framework exists for promoting equal access to and treatment in employment — the International Labor Organization (ILO) Decent Work Initiative. This initiative has four interrelated objectives: fostering rights at work and providing employment, social protection, and social dialogue. The primary goal is “to promote opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work, in conditions of freedom, equity, security, and human dignity.” The gender sensitivity of the decent work framework, and the sex-disaggregated indicators it proposes for monitoring country performance, make it suitable for tracking a country’s progress toward eliminating gender inequalities in labor markets. The task force recommends that the ILO be given the resources and authority to take the leadership in providing data and monitoring progress for this initiative. | |
Happy Women's Day!
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Create more awareness that women are getting fleeced with higher prices than men for hair cuts, clothes and cosmetics by writing to companies and media, hoping for the change!
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It is very much necessary to reduce this gender gap... Everyone needs to change their mentality for this... In India for one, many women are not allowed to work after marriage... This needs to be changed so that the women are allowed to progress in life... In some big companies too the women are not given top executive posts due to gender inequality... But this must be changed because women too are equally capable and no one has the right to question someones ability based on gender...
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Happy women's day.
Gender Equality is the main thing to considered first in Every part of the world! And i support that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ... E_ID10%2C8308873831 | |
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Gender Equality is necessary! I am happy to see on YouTube that now a days, girls and women are also taking part in reviewing tech! That's Nice. Also I saw in a marriage that, a rock band of girls performed there and it was soo awesome! Gender Equality is gaining momentum but slowly. Happy Women's Day!
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"You must be change you want to see in the world" Gandhi's speech. As per my view 1st start respect your own family mom, sister etc then also able to respect all women. And main point to take at last 80% Equality in your society then need proper education. Only education able to chance mind of people.To make a perfect world Gender Equality is necessary and to make make this equality 1st need change your own mind and also try change mind of your relative,frnd and neighbours.....
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