Women migrant workers 2008, para. 16

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Women migrant workers may be unable to save or transmit savings safely through regular channels due to isolation (for domestic workers), cumbersome procedures, language barriers, or high transaction costs. This is a great problem since in general they earn less than men. Women may further face familial obligations to remit all their earnings to their families to a degree that may not be expected of men. For example, single women may be expected to support even extended family members at home.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Gender
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Families
  • Men
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2008
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 26, Women migrant workers (2008), para. 16.
Paragraph number
16