Today, hundreds of millions of women will wake up to face yet another day of backbreakingwork for little or no reward. Although their labour – in and outside the home – is vital to the global economy, to sustainable development, and for the wellbeing of society at large, it is undervalued and for the most part invisible. While public outrage grows at the fact that the richest 1% of the world’s population owns almost half the world’s wealth,and even bastions of international finance such as the international Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World economic Forum (WeF) are increasingly talking about the corrosive effect of economic inequality, the human-made injustice of women’s economic inequality remains a pervasive crisis that is largely absent from the political spotlight and inequality debates.it seems obvious that women should enjoy the same rights as men in every aspect of life, and indeed international conventions and national legislation in many (though by no means all) countries grant equal rights to women.
However, realizing these rights remains a distant dream, with women still being economically unequal to men by virtually every measure.
What’s more, while the situation is unfair and unacceptable for women everywhere, it is poor women in developing countries who bear the biggest share of the costs, and are constantly pushed to the bottom of the economic pile.
The Cost of Inequality in Women's Work - Close the Gap!
Извор: WUNRN – 30.01.2015
