Rome, 21 feb (EFE) .- The United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO ) today warned of growing inequalities experienced by women in rural areas and opted to take measures to reduce gender differences in rural employment sector.
This follows from the report "Gender issues in agricultural and rural employment: differentiated pathways out of poverty", prepared by FAO together with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and International Labour Organization ( ILO) released today.
According to the text, women get fewer benefits to rural employment and facing new challenges due to economic crisis.
"Although gender inequality varies considerably between different regions and sectors, there is evidence that, globally, women receive less benefit of rural employment (either paid employment or self-employed) men.
report stands out among its conclusions the need to promote female education and to adopt additional measures to address these differences.
also need to recognize the economic contribution of unpaid work, take steps to reduce and redistribute the burden of housework and support gender equality.
"Recent economic and financial crisis has slowed the process towards greater gender equality" and decent work for women in agriculture and rural areas in recent years.
According to FAO, with job losses and cuts in social infrastructure and services has increased "the burden on women to care for others and unpaid work, so that their financial contribution to food security relative decline. "
The report, which seeks to promote debate on the importance of women in rural economic growth and poverty reduction, examines further issues such as migration and the feminization of rural activities, international trade and diversification of the economy rural and child labor.
also said employment, segmentation, the pay gap between men and women and fewer hours of paid work but with a higher workload as some of the factors behind the economic disadvantage suffered by women.
"90 percent of the wage gap by gender in the developed or developing countries can not be justified: in other words, should be attributed to gender discrimination."
To overcome this situation, the FAO says is needed greater access to education, training, credit, markets, technical assistance and protection employment and an equitable and secure access to land and other assets.
It also requires "social capital" that allows women to participate equally with men in farmers' organizations to increase their contribution to national development and poverty reduction.
70 percent of the 1,400 million people living in extreme poverty in the developing world live in rural areas, FAO said. EFE
Source: ABC.es
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