International Women's Day 2003

The International Women’s Day remains as valid as a when it started to be celebrated to commemorate the first strike organised by women workers.
Let us all join forces to ensure decent jobs and a decent life for women around the world!
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International Women's Day
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Women's voice over war reporting urged at ILO event - 08.03.2003
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Some of UNI's women staff who attended the International Women's Day event at the International Labour Office

Pay Equity Now!
8 March 2003

As part of the Global unions’ Women’s Campaign, "Pay Equity Now" has been identified as the theme of the campaign for 8 March 2003.

Facts
  • Worldwide, women are paid less (between 10-50%) than men for doing similar work, or different jobs of comparable worth;
  • Yet equal pay is a fundamental right, recognised in many international instruments, including the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (1998).

What you can do

  • Form a campaign team to carry out your actions and lobbying activities. Think of a variety of actions such as:
  • Call on your national centre and /or union to put Pay Equity high on the collective bargaining agenda;
  • Urge employers to undertake gender audits at the workplace;
  • Request your government to ratify and/or rein-force the Equal Remuneration Convention 100;
  • Request your government to provide annual statistics

Information on Pay Equity
  • Pay Equity resource Package (www.world-psi.org)
  • Global Union’s Women’s Campaign websitet: www.icftu.org

Links to Celebrations in International Organisations

Contact: women@union-network.org

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