CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1999 -- Historical profile: Nurses mark formation of labour organization -- Maternity protection: Proposed revision of Convention No. 103 -- Low-quality jobs for women: Opportunities or dead-ends? -- Stronger push by the ILO on gender issues -- Palestinian women: Looking for peace on the "Mountain of Fire" -- Baltic blues: For women workers in Estonia, new jobs are lacking -- New ILO report: Gender equality closer, but much still to be done -- 2000 -- ILO/STEP: Working with the innovative microinsurance movement in Sahelian Africa -- ILO examines progress, looks ahead to Beijing+5 -- Work from waste: Sweeping change among women workers? In Dar, it's more than just simple rubbish -- New maternity Convention adopted -- Five years after Beijing: Progress towards gender equality, but "patchy and uneven" -- Women work to close the "occupational safety gender gap" -- The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA): Giving unprotected women workers in India a collective voice to organize and bargain -- 2001 -- Forced labour, human trafficking, slavery haunt us still -- Beyond the "Glass Ceiling": Women in the world of work progress, but slowly -- New ILO Study: Labour markets less volatile than generally assumed -- 2002 -- Women's Day 2002: Women and conflict -- First ILO gender audit keeps equality on the agenda -- In India, Beedi rollers seek new ways of earning a living -- Women in the informal economy: Urgent need for maternity protection -- 2003 -- Battlefields, hot spots and danger zones: Women break the glass ceiling to break the news -- Workplace discrimination: A picture of hope and concern -- Narrowing the gender unemployment gap in Jordan -- Woman seafarers: Fighting against the tide? -- 2004 -- International Women's Day 2004: Updated ILO report shows "Glass Ceiling" tough to break.

New Study on Women at Work: Equality remains elusive -- 2005 -- United Republic of Tanzania: A life-cycle approach to gender equality and decent work -- Girl Combatants: Women warriors fight their way back into Liberian society -- Modern Daddy: Norway's progressive policy on paternity leave -- 2006 -- Women in sports: How level is the playing field? -- Women entrepreneurs in Africa -- Lighting a torch for empowerment: "We Matter," say Filipino Domestic Workers -- An Honest Day's work? Considering the nebulous notion of today's work-life balance -- Bibliography.