(a)
Use of analytical tools;
(b)
Effective legislation;
(c)
Transparency of women’s and men’s wages;
(d) Changing the gender-based division of labour and the stereotyped
choices of men and women;
(e)
Effective guidance for employers.
14. Governments are encouraged to develop strategies to increase the well-being
of low-waged workers, including enforcement of existing laws in particular in
those industries where the most vulnerable workers, predominantly women, are
found.
15. Full integration of women into the formal economy and, in particular into
economic decision-making, means changing the current gender-based division of
labour into new economic structures where women and men enjoy equal treatment,
pay and power. To this end, better sharing of paid and unpaid work between
women and men is required. Governments should take or encourage measures,
including, where appropriate, the formulation, promotion and implementation of
legal and administrative measures to facilitate the reconciliation of work and
personal and/or family life, such as child and dependant care, parental leave
and flexible working schemes for men and women and, where appropriate, shorter
working hours.
16. Governments should consider ratifying the new ILO Convention on home-based
workers.
17. Governments and employers should ensure the protection of the rights of
migrant women workers, by creating better educational and employment
opportunities, preventing and combating trafficking in women and children, and
eliminating discrimination against women in the labour market.
18. Governments should monitor and enforce equal opportunity policies and
labour laws pertaining to the practices of all of the national and transnational
corporations operating in their countries.
19. Women and men should identify and support women-friendly corporations and
socially responsible businesses through investments and the use of their
services or products.
20. The unpaid work of women, such as work in agriculture, food production,
voluntary work, work in family business, and work in natural resource management
and in the household, is a considerable contribution to the economy. Unpaid
work should be measured and valued through existing and improved mechanisms,
including by:
(a) Measuring, in quantitative terms, unremunerated work that is outside
national accounts, working to improve methods to assess its value, and
accurately reflecting its value in satellite or other official accounts that are
separate from but consistent with core national accounts;
(b) Conducting regular time-use studies to measure, in quantitative terms,
unremunerated work;
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