It will take over 190 years for gender parity in employment: ILO report
The HinduWomen hold just 30% of managerial positions globally, with only a modest improvement over the past two decades, according to ‘Women and the Economy: 30 Years after the Beijing Declaration’, a new brief released in Geneva by the International Labour Organization on the occasion of International Women’s Day. Cautioning that, at this pace, achieving gender parity in employment rates globally will take over 190 years, the report found that women continue to be overrepresented in low-paid sectors like nursing and childcare, while men dominate fields like transport and mechanics. “They also continue to face lower average earnings and fewer paid working hours globally and are overrepresented in informal employment in low- and lower-middle-income countries,” the report added. At this pace of progress, achieving gender parity in employment rates globally will take over 190 years,” the report noted. “However, employed women globally still earn significantly less on average than men, work fewer paid hours, and are overrepresented in informal employment in low- and lower-middle income countries,” it said.
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