Overview:
Depending on gender stereotypes and roles within a society, whether one is born male or female can be a major determinant of exclusion from rights and opportunities, access and control over resources and benefits, as well as determining patterns of productive and reproductive work. Gender also shapes how individuals and households experience and break out of poverty. Decent work is central to translating growth into less poverty and more social equity. Poverty and the ILO Decent Work agenda must address sex discrimination and exclusion in all spheres, as they interact to limit women and girls' opportunities. Gender stereotypes also limit men and boys' contribution to unpaid reproductive work in the home - such as caring for children or elderly, and food preparation and other domestic duties - for which the burden falls mainly on women and girls.
Integrating the specific and often different concerns of women and men when into all policies, programmes and other initiatives helps ensure that these will address the needs of both and hence contribute to a more inclusionary outcome. The ILO strategy for promoting gender equality in the world of work uses a two-pronged approach. The first is through gender mainstreaming, which explicitly and systematically takes into account women and men's concerns and needs in all policies, strategies and at every step of every activity. The second is through gender-targeted interventions, when analysis shows that one sex - usually women - have ben disadvantaged socially, politically and/or economically.
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