World Report on Child Labour 2015

SamaelET · 2021-12-04T19:14:03+00:00

Boys’ involvement in hazardous work substantially exceeds that of girls’ with 38.7 million 15 to 17 year-old boys in hazardous work in 2012 compared to only 8.8 million of their female peers. While the ultimate policy goal should be decent work, these figures make it clear that a critical first priority in achieving this goal needs to be the removal of adolescents from hazardous forms of employment. (p73)

But gender only matters when taking account of girl (p28) :

As noted at various points in this Report, girl children face special barriers in terms of exercising their rights to education and protection from child labour, owing to factors such as early marriage, the demands of domestic responsibilities within their own home and traditional roles

They compare work done by men (dangerous and health destroying work) with domestic responsibilties while ignoring that UN simply brushes off boys married young.

This highlights the overarching need for inclusive education strategies, including girl-friendly schools, which are adaptive to and supportive of the unique schooling challenges faced by girl children. It also calls for targeted interventions addressing the variety of cultural, social and economic factors that leave girl children especially vulnerable to certain types of child labour, including commercial sexual exploitation and domestic work.

Ignoring that boys are especially vulnerable to certain form of child labor, like harzardous labor, and face unique challenge, like being forced to provide and protect

Female youth in many regions suffer from fewer opportunities in the labour market and greater difficulties in transiting to decent work. They are also often confined toa narrower range of occupational opportunities than their male counterparts

Because men kill themselves taking dangerous jobs. But ILO probably counts working in hazardous workplace, with no healthcare, paid leaves, sick leaves and destroying your body and mind as decent jobs.

Young women’s career trajectories can be severely limited as a result of societal and familial expectations that they quit their work after marriage or after the birth of their first child. The disadvantaged position of female youth in the labour market underscores the need for continued efforts towards ensuring equal opportunities and treatment of young women and men in education and in work.

More focus on women not having a career than men having to work in indecent jobs to provide. But, hey it is career, they are privileged. Let's not focus on how to make sure that men can have "career" that doesn't kill them but focus on how we can make women feel accomplished.

Table 1 p98 provide policies recommandations. You can see the "hazardous work" policies is gender neutral. But a quarter of the table is about women and girls.

UnHope20 · 2021-12-05T16:24:29+00:00

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Title	World Report on Child Labour 2015
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Date	December 4, 2021 6:57 PM UTC (4 years ago)
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