Not Just More, but Better: Fostering Quality of Employment for Women

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Not Just More, but Better: Fostering Quality of Employment for Women

dc.contributor.author	Datta, Namita
dc.contributor.author	Kotikula, Aphichoke
dc.date.accessioned	2017-03-15T19:50:30Z
dc.date.available	2017-03-15T19:50:30Z
dc.date.issued	2017-01
dc.description.abstract	Despite progress on women’s labor force participation in the past few decades, there remain persistent gender gaps across multiple dimensions of job quality. Women generally earn less than men. Gaps are particularly acute in the Middle East and North Africa but also persist in high income Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Women tend to be concentrated in less productive jobs, run enterprises in less productive sectors, and are more likely to do part-time and temporary jobs with fewer avenues for advancement, than men. Women are particularly concentrated into the more invisible activities, such as domestic labor and unpaid work or work in the informal sector in jobs that lack security and are not covered by labor laws. In other words, there are persistent gender gaps not only in labor force participation rates or the quantity of jobs, but perhaps more importantly, in the quality or types of jobs that men and women do. Having access to quality jobs which are stable, decent, secure, and productive is even more important from a gender perspective because women are more likely than men to be over represented in low paying, part time, informal, and low productivity jobs. This paper explores the multiple dimensions of women’s access to good quality jobs, factors contributing to gender gaps, and possible solutions or actions that have worked in different countries.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/569891488778608236/Not-just-more-but-better-fostering-quality-of-employment-for-women
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/26274
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/26274
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Jobs Working Paper;No. 1
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	gender
dc.subject	parity
dc.subject	jobs
dc.subject	labor market
dc.subject	female labor force participation
dc.title	Not Just More, but Better	en
dc.title.subtitle	Fostering Quality of Employment for Women	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Not Just More, but Better
okr.date.disclosure	2017-03-06
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/569891488778608236/Not-just-more-but-better-fostering-quality-of-employment-for-women
okr.guid	569891488778608236
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/26274
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	090224b0849ba0e3_2_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	27243453
okr.identifier.report	113175
okr.imported	true
okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/569891488778608236/pdf/113175-REVISED-Not-Just-More-but-Better-Fostering-Quality-of-Employment-for-Women.pdf	en
okr.topic	Finance and Financial Sector Development::Access to Finance
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Development
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Economics
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Poverty
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.unit	JOBS- CCSA - IFC (GSPJB)

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