Today 1.2 billion of the world's 2.9 billion workers are women (40%).
While women are massively moving into the labour market, more and more women are being pushed into informal/unorganized/contract/casual/daily labour in indecent work conditions with very low wages/earnings. They are integrated under the worse conditions with low payment and low working status remaining at the bottom of the occupational hierarchy and they also tend to have unsafe working conditions, something that serves as tool for the attack against labour rights.
Poverty is increasingly feminized. Women are 60 % of the world's working poor people.
More women than ever before are unemployed (81.8 million). They are mostly stuck in low productivity jobs such as agriculture, the field of services and the informal sector.
Women are submitted to intense discrimination and they are paid lower salaries than men even for the same job. Globally, women earn 20-30 % less than men.
Maternity protection for vast numbers of working women is barely guaranteed and working women who become pregnant are faced with the threat of losing their jobs, suspended earnings and increased health risks due to inadequate working conditions.
Women are increasingly migrating, both legally and illegally, seeking for better employment. They represent almost 50% of all international immigrants and they are among the most vulnerable group exposed to exploitation and abuse.
Women are being trafficked for prostitution and leisure including young girls between the ages 7 year to 14 years. This is happening within the countries and across the borders.
