Cooperation in between ASEAN member nations and social partners is needed to enhance defense for female workers, in addition to realize ASEAN’s concrete efforts to attain SDGs targets on gender equality and ladies’s empowerment
Jakarta – Manpower Minister Ida Fauziyah has actually contacted ASEAN member nations to supply much better defense for female workers in the Southeast Asia area, particularly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
” Cooperation in between ASEAN member nations and social partners is needed to enhance security for female workers, along with understand ASEAN’s concrete efforts to attain SDGs targets on gender equality and ladies’s empowerment,” stated Fauziyah in a statement here on Sunday.
” This is the proper way to increase the security for female workforce and their function in supporting financial recovery during the pandemic,” she said’
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The minister stressed shared dedication to understanding the International Sustainable Advancement Goals (SDGs) on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
The problems on protection and empowerment of women along with gender equality, she stated, must be an integral part of efforts to recover social and financial conditions due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Fauziyah highlighted the requirement for stakeholders to offer better defense for female employees, one of the vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In addition, the government and other stakeholders likewise require to take several actions to increase the function and protection of women workers in an effort to bring back the economy in ASEAN member nations impacted by COVID-19
She reminded that based upon the report of the International Labor Organization (ILO), women employees in the Asia Pacific region were disproportionately affected by the crisis. This means that more ladies lose their jobs than men.
” Different reasons trigger losses for ladies employees due to the fact that a lot of ladies in Asia Pacific area operate in sectors that are heavily affected by the crisis,” stated the minister.
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