Note for Equality N° 14: Female unemployment remains higher than male unemployment
Though the gender gap in unemployment has decreased by nearly 1 percentage point between the years 2000 and 2012, five out of every ten women are still outside the labor market.
What can be done?
● Make the existing inequalities visible through adequate measurements and statistics.
● Promote active public policies within the labor market that eliminate structural, institutional and cultural restrictions that affect women’s entry into the labor market.
● Progressively diminish horizontal segregation in the labor market and expand remunerated labor opportunities for women.
● Promote and create access to job protection mechanisms (unemployment insurance, training, workforce reinsertion, etc.).
