This year it is “Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030” — weird bureaucratic shorthand for a call to transform the world of work where structural barriers continue to hinder women, and to accelerate moves to achieve the goal of gender equality by 2030. Where do women stand today in the world of work? Women bear a disproportionate burden–more than double the work of men–of unpaid work around the world–cooking, cleaning, taking care of children and the elderly and farm work. Where do Filipino women stand in relation to gender equality in the world of work? Hence, women are condemned to spend more time in “unpaid work” like domestic tasks, stopping them from contracting paid employment.

Source: Manila Times March 07, 2017 16:18 UTC