Facts and Figures: Economic Empowerment. Women migrant workers are often concentrated in informal, low paid and unregulated work. The main sectors in which women migrant workers are employed are: services and retail (18.8 per cent), elementary occupations (17.3 per cent), craft and related trades (15.2 per cent), professionals (13.9 per cent) and clerks (12.3 per cent).[35] Of the estimated 11.5 million international migrant domestic workers (in 2013), approximately 73.4 per cent were women.[36] [1] UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, Leave No One Behind: A Call to Action for Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment. . Available at: [2] International Monetary Fund (2018)
. [3] PwC, Women in Work Index 2018. . [4]See Cuberes, D., & Teignier, M. (2016) . [6] UN Women, Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016. . [7]McKinsey & Company, Women Matter: Time to accelerate. Demand a 4 Day Week | United Kingdom | Home. A shorter working week is in reach | New Economics Foundation. Working time is set to become one of the major battlegrounds of our generation – and the new report published today by Autonomy and the 4 Day Week Campaign is an important and timely resource for the growing movement. The authors – including my colleague Aidan Harper, a founder of the 4 Day Week Campaign – are right to highlight the opportunity for national policy change as well as the central role for unions in ensuring that reduced working hours benefit everyone, not just those who can currently afford it. Next week will see the launch of the London Good Work Commission. The New Economics Foundation is pleased to be part of this alliance, in which we will be developing a strategy for making London a four-day week city while tackling the growth of low pay and insecure work.
As part of the Commission and through our work with unions we aim to build a new consensus that more free time can be baked into the rules of the economy. Making automation work for us Learning from workplaces. The New Normal: Radical Inequality, Suffocating Debt, and Growing Job Uncertainty. By Servaas Storm The Great Financial Crisis of 2008 deeply scarred the U.S. economy, bringing nine dire years of economic stagnation, high and rising inequalities in income and wealth, steep levels of indebtedness, and mounting uncertainty about jobs and incomes.
Big parts of the U.S. were hit by elevated rates of depression, drug addiction and ‘deaths of despair’ (Case and Deaton 2017), as ‘good jobs’ (often in factories and including pension benefits and health care coverage) leading to careers, were destroyed and replaced by insecure, freelance, or precarious ‘gigs’. All this is evidence that the U.S. is becoming a dual economy—two countries, each with vastly different resources, expectations and potentials, as America’s middle class vanishes (Temin 2015, 2017). The anger and despair crystalized into a ‘groundswell of discontent’ among those left behind, which likely helped to propel Donald Trump into the White House on the promise of ‘making America great again’. References. Money can buy happiness — why government should invest in wellbeing. This opinion piece was written by Sarah Casey, senior strategy and investment adviser for internal affairs in the New Zealand government.
It was a runner up of the 2018 Apolitical Young Thought Leaders competition. For more like this, see the other winning entries. Happy people do better in every aspect of life. A nation’s prosperity is measured in terms of GDP but while many nations are getting richer, life satisfaction measures are stagnating. In a world where echoes of “me too” and “black lives matter” are travelling the globe, many communities experience hunger, poverty, and violence, and irreversible damage is being done to the planet, it’s clear we need to redefine what success looks like for our people, our communities and our nations.
“Wellbeing” provides an opportunity to have a new conversation that focuses on what people value. Exploring wellbeing Ten years ago, wellbeing was a niche area of study that, while well-intentioned, was anecdotal and aspirational at best. Unpacking Racial and Class Privilege within the Eco Lifestyle Movement - Eco Warrior Princess. World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam | News. The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet’s population.
In an annual wealth check released to mark the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the development charity Oxfam said 2018 had been a year in which the rich had grown richer and the poor poorer. It said the widening gap was hindering the fight against poverty, adding that a wealth tax on the 1% would raise an estimated $418bn (£325bn) a year – enough to educate every child not in school and provide healthcare that would prevent 3 million deaths. Oxfam said the wealth of more than 2,200 billionaires across the globe had increased by $900bn in 2018 – or $2.5bn a day. The 12% increase in the wealth of the very richest contrasted with a fall of 11% in the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population. Among the findings of the report were: The feminist T-shirt scandal exposes an entire system of exploitation | Guardian Sustainable Business. The high street brand Whistles, fashion magazine Elle, and long-running feminist campaign group The Fawcett Society are currently caught in a fashion scandal after the publication of Mail on Sunday allegations that their collaborative ‘This Is What A Feminist Looks Like’ T-shirts are made in a Mauritian sweatshop by women earning 62p an hour.
The descriptions of the living and working conditions endured by migrant women working in Mauritius are harrowing – long hours, meagre pay and prison-like living conditions. What they are not however is a revelation, this is well documented (pdf) business-as-usual in the global fashion industry. Sam Maher, policy officer at Labour Behind The Label, has recently returned from meeting with garment workers unions in Bangladesh and is very clear that exploitation is unavoidable in a collaboration with a high street retailer.
“The issues of long hours, low pay and the exploitation of women are endemic in the industry. More like this: 8 Companies That Could Disappear in 2019. The Future Sharing Economy and a New Model of Consumerism. I’m a futurist, I think 24/7 about the impact of automation and technology on the on the global economy. In respect to basic income, it’s being introduced as some kind of fix-all “stand alone”solution to the next era of technological unemployment, but that is incorrect. There seems to be a lot of confusion about the role a human stipend (basic income) will play in the future of the next phase of consumerism.
As wealth inequality increases to rise, and global tech monopolies become even more powerful, and as automation continues and advances more rapidly, there will be a significant social and economic press on global citizens. The Disenfranchised Millennial (Generation) In the U.S. students saddled with student debt delay home ownership or are never able to go down that path. In fact, young people are already experiencing this press today. The New Economics of Social Mobility In 2025, millennials will make up 75% of the workplace — World Economic Forum A Regulated Gig Economy With Benefits. Emerging market catch-up set back ‘decades’