Six key areas that restrain women from entering labour force - a random response to the Women's Policy Action Network
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A recent article in the Daily Mirror r eported on a press conference organised by the Women's Policy Action Network (WPAN) of the Advocata Institute, on the vexed topic of Women's Labour Force Participation. It really sounds like a broken record So here are a few random points that I can't help but put down First point - one that is repeatedly made but which economists, especially the neo-liberal kind, repeatedly ignore. Contributing to economic growth should not be the reason for increasing women's labour force participation. Women (like men) have a right to work and have rights at work, and policymakers have an obligation to respect and protect these rights. The ILO sums up these rights as "decent work" - "i t involves opportunities for work that is productive and delivers a fair income, security in the workplace and social protection for all, better prospects for personal development and social integration, freedom for people to express their conce