Employment of Women Data and Analysis

To improve the economic independence of women and provide sensible employment, the State Employment Assistance Programme for 2003 2005 provides for measures to promote employment among women.

Employment rate and economic independence of women

Chapter 9 Women and employment

This is why there are significantly less middle aged women seeking employment through Employment Bureaus. There is a difference in the average age of men and women seeking employment.

The efforts of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment to encourage women returners to take paid employment also target also ethnic minority women not receiving benefit who want paid employment.

Convention No. 122 Employment and vocational training of women.

Information relating to women in the field of employment in Pakistan The following tables give some idea of the situation in Pakistan as it relates to women and employment.

Education and health are also important sectors of employment for women.

Over the same period, full time employment for women grew by 18.1 per cent, while part time employment for women grew by 34.4 per cent

The Measure had also supported equality proofing by the Equality Authority of employment policies and organizations, and research on women returning to employment and training and on women entrepreneurs.

2.9 Part VIII of the Employment Act provides for conditions pertaining to the Employment of Women and Young Persons and states that

Educated women are more challenged in employment than uneducated ones.

Women are also finding employment as pilots in commercial airlines.

The data of the Employment Bureau indicate that the age of men and women seeking employment is mostly uniform in the younger age categories.

To eliminate the discrimination of women in the areas of earnings, employment, access to credit and employment related public and private social benefit systems.

72.5 of the women sought full time employment while the remaining 27.5 sought part time employment (compared to 88.2 and 11.8 of men, respectively).

Forwarding to employment following the completion of the above mentioned actions, the trained women are integrated into programmes of OAED aiming to find employment.

In the first quarter of 2003, for the Republic as a whole, 6,880 women turned to employment service offices. Of them, 864 women were sent for vocational training to employment service training centres. sic

In 2001 and for six months of 2002, employment service offices gave unemployed women concessional (interest free) loans totalling 49,800 somoni in order to organize self employment and support entrepreneurial initiatives among women.

Indeed pregnant women are afforded substantial protection under the Employment Act.

The low participation of women in employment is related both to restricted opportunities of part time employment and to conditions of small differentiation in salary levels.

The burden of transitional period, concerning the employment, is mainly carried out by women.

Equality in recruitment and employment practices All public sector agencies have established practices, procedures, and recruitment rules with regard to employment including that of women.

Health and safety legislation applying to employment treated men and women equally.

Micro credit for self employment and small entrepreneurial ventures, especially for women.

Convention on employment of women before and after birth number 3 from the year 1919

That same year, the employment centers placed 2,312 persons and of these 9 were women.

(a) Poor, out of school girls and women were trained and supported in finding employment.

Policies concerning women can be classified in the following categories Promotion of employment and entrepreneurship.

A large percentage of these women also have, or would like to have, paid employment.

Convention concerning the Employment of Women on Underground Work in Mines of All Kinds (No. 45)

Women in Government Service The National Commission on the Status of Women commissioned an inquiry report in 2001 on the status of women employment in public sector organizations.

The National Action Plan for Employment, updated in 2004, was very much concerned with women's issues and had been successful in expanding the employment of women.

The average rate of employment of Estonian population (15 64 years old) in 2003 was 62.6 , whereas the employment rate of men was 66.7 and that of women 58.8 .

Identification of promising new areas of employment for the social and vocational integration of girls and women.

It includes programmes for new positions of work for women, aiming at obtaining working experience and promoting employment of unemployed women aged 18 65.

Women are also involved in activities that generate incomes through the self employment.

This should in turn make it easier for women to enter paid employment.

More than 80 of unemployed women who turn to the employment service offices have no specialty.

Table 5 Employment rate for women ages 10 to 69, by place of residence and region

The transition to a market economy changed the nature of employment of women in the State sector.

The majority of women returned to the same or a comparable position of employment following maternity leave.

Ms. Akşit (Turkey) reiterated that in order to increase employment of women, the Directorate General for the Status and Problems of Women had prioritized the promotion of employment for women and, upon recommendation of the Directorate General, the Prime Minister's office had issued its circular on non discrimination in job advertisements.

Particular emphasis is placed on the promotion of employment, support and empowerment of the entrepreneurial capacity of women.