Photo from 2014 "16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence Campaign" launch in the Solomon Islands . UN Women/Patrick Reoka/Flickr. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
No one should have to give up their safety to make a living or participate in the labour movement. Yet gender-based violence impacts the working lives of many people around the world, particularly women and girls, at alarming rates.
Globally, women workers disproportionately do not have access to living wages, healthcare and a secure retirement, and labour in unsafe and unhealthy working conditions. Women constitute approximately 49% of the global workforce, but are concentrated in low-income, precarious and informal jobs. New forms of work are often built on old structures of exploitation and discrimination, perpetuating cycles of poverty and inequality. On top of that, women workers’ access to political and labour organising spaces is often limited by the violence and discrimination they encounter.
