
Domestic and care work responsibilities fall disproportionately on women. Photo: Hernán Piñera/Flickr. (CC BY-SA 2.0). Some rights reserved.
Women’s organisations in developing countries can be proud of themselves. Thanks to their struggles, more states have adopted laws to promote gender equality at work. Overall, women have greater access to their own incomes, more of us are working, and the gender gap in the quality of employment is narrowing slightly.