Bridge the gap

Poor countries provide fewer opportunities to women

The position of women in the workforce is generally understood to be central to the speed and quality of a nation’s growth, as well as to its ability to improve its social indicators. Much attention has been paid to female unemployment as well as to the labour force participation rate for women. But in an international perspective, both may fail to capture elements of female labour status that are of great importance. It is in this context that the International Labour Organization (ILO) has released a research paper that delves deeper into the earnings and employment gap between men and