strategy
Improving job security for women
Synonyms:
Increasing womens' access to quality employment Description:
There are three major challenges for women at work, [ie] finding the best strategies to (a) compete for full-time and well paid jobs at the core of the employment structure; (b) increase the security and remuneration of work under part-time and atypical contracts; and (c) ensure equal treatment, protection and access to resources in a deregulated small business sector, including self-employment and entrepreneurship. Although these are all issues relevant to the general labour market, they are more relevant to women than men due to the existing employment pattern. Implementation:
Actions that will assist in the achievement of improving women's employment options, security and equal status are (a) setting employment conditions on an equal footing and promoting equality of treatment for those in atypical work contracts; (b) encouraging mobility between non-standard and standard employment; (c) supporting part-time employment as a woman's choice not as her only job opportunity; and (d) improving representation and advocacy networks for workers under atypical work contracts in collective bargaining.Solving problems of flexible contracts is complex given the present labour market situation and that many of the disadvantages of part-time employment is at the very heart of women's competitive advantage in this market segment. The strategy could involve actions towards improving the legislative framework for non-standard employment and women's competitive position on this market in order to make atypical contracts a career of choice. This would make it possible to enjoy the flexibility of this type of employment and limit many, or at least some, of the existing disadvantages.
Narrower:
Securing minimum wage limits for womenImproving opportunities for women's self-employmentEstablishing equal opportunity for women in employment Constrained by:
Increasing labour flexibility Facilitates:
Improving social services for women Facilitated by:
Improving access to quality jobs Problems:
Discrimination against women in employmentGender stereotyping of employment
Inferior status employment
Job insecurity for pregnant women
Underrepresentation of women in the professions
Unequal pay for women
Unequal promotion
Subjects:
Society → WomenSocial Activity → Employment
Research, Standards → Quality unification
Development → Reform
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
