Domestic Workers

Gender Equality and Decent Work

Selected ILO Conventions and Recommendations that promote Gender Equality as of 2012. Information about ordering hard copies is on the ILO...

The New Bonded Labour?

The impact of proposed changes to the UK immigration system on migrant domestic workers

Organising Domestic Workers: For Decent Work and the ILO Convention No. 189

AbstractDomestic work is the largest sector of female employment world-wide, yet it is extremely undervalued and unprotected by labour law....

Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers and Civil Society

Verité Research recently conducted interviews with 22 members of civil society organizations to assess the quantity and quality of research...

Who Cares? article in Feministische Studien

Who cares? Drei politische Tagungen im März 2014 in Berlin This article (in German) was written by Karin Pape, the Deputy Director of WIEGO’s...

Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty

Available in English here Disponible en español aquí Disponible en français ici 

Care Work: The Quest for Security

CSI Guía de acción – Trabajo decente, vida decente para los trabajadores y trabajadoras del hogar

Informal Economy Budget Analysis in Peru and Metropolitan Lima

This paper analyzes the national, regional and local budgeting allocations for programmes and services targeting (directly or indirectly)...

Domestic Workers Across the World: Global and Regional Statistics and the Extent of Legal Protection

This report attempts to capture the size of the domestic work sector in the world for 2010 of 52.6 million. According to the latest data...