In the past two decades, there was significant progress in the education of women, but this has not been translated into improvements in their position at work," found the study, based on data from 178 countries.
According to the analysis, the disparities between women and men prevail in a number of sectors of the world labor market.
Globally, the gender disparity in employment fell only 0.6 percent since 1995, with an employment-population ratio in 2015 of 46 percent for the women and nearly 72 percent for men, found ILO.
Though 52.1 percent of women and 51.2 percent of men in the labor market are wage-earning workers, "this alone fails to guarantees a better quality of the job," said the Un ILO on occasion of International Women's Day (March 8).
We cannot forget that the women continue working more hours a day than men, both in tasks without remuneration and in paid jobs.
In both high and low-income countries, they do at least two and a half more domestic and family care work than men, on average. Such imbalance limits the women's capacity to increase her hours of formal, remunerated job, says the study.
This new study shows the great challenges the women continue facing when it comes to get and maintain decent jobs," said Guy Ryder, Director General of ILO.
In his opinion, the agenda 2030, endorsed by the international community, is a bright opportunity to join hands and develop urgent, lasting and consistent gender equality.
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