The ITUC Women’s Committee challenges the assumption that the consequences of the global crisis we are currently facing are gender neutral.
The full employment effect of the crisis is still unknown. However, women’s
disadvantaged position on labour markets renders them particularly vulnerable to layoffs in restructuring processes. Further women are overrepresented in certain sectors which are being severely hit by the economic recession such as clothing, retail, electronics, finance, service and export oriented sectors...

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