Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing

• Global Trade
• Organization and Representation
• Social Protection
• Statistics
• Urban Policies
• General Activities

• Street Vendors
• Waste Collectors
• Home-Based Producers
• Garment Workers
• Domestic Workers

About the Informal Economy

The conceptual framework below was developed by Ralf Hussmanns of the ILO and appeared in the 2002 ILO publication, Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture.

Box taken from ILO. 2002. Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture. Geneva: ILO.