CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: Labour standards promoting women workers' rights and gender equality -- 1. How to use this guide -- 2. Gender equality in the ILO's mandate -- 3. International labour Conventions and Recommendations -- 4. Gender equality, a fundamental human right -- 5. History of standard setting to promote women workers' rights and gender equality -- 6. Sources of gender equality law: International labour standards, supranational law and national law -- 7. Application and enforcement at the national level -- 8. ILO standard setting and other means of action -- A -- Access to employment -- Accidents -- Advertising for workers -- Affirmative action -- Agricultural and other rural workers -- Atypical work -- B -- Benzene -- Biological risks -- Bonded labour -- Breastfeeding workers -- Bullying -- Burden of proof -- C -- Call centres -- Care work -- Career breaks -- Career opportunities -- Cash and medical benefits for maternity -- Casual work -- Chemicals -- Childcare and family services and facilities -- Child labour -- Clandestine work -- Collective bargaining -- Commercial sexual exploitation -- Computers -- Conditions and benefits of employment -- Contract compliance -- Cooperatives -- Cultural identity, respect for -- D -- Decent work -- Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work -- Dependent workers -- Disabilities, workers with -- Disciplinary action -- Discrimination -- Dismissal -- Diversity in the workplace -- Division of labour -- Domestic workers -- E -- Early retirement -- Economic activity -- Economically active population -- Education -- Elder care -- Employability -- Employee -- Employer -- Employers' organizations -- Employment injury benefit -- Employment-intensive works programmes -- Employment policy and promotion -- Employment relationship.

Equality of opportunity and treatment in employment and occupation -- Equal remuneration -- Equity -- Export processing zones -- F -- Facilities and equipment -- Family benefit -- Family responsibilities, workers with -- Family services and facilities -- Female-headed households -- Flexibility of labour -- Forced labour -- Freedom of association and the right to organize -- Fundamental principles and rights at work -- G -- Gender -- Gender analysis and planning -- Gender and development -- Gender equality -- Gender equity -- Gender mainstreaming -- Girl child labourers -- Glass ceiling -- Globalization -- Grievance procedures -- H -- Harassment and pressure -- Health during maternity -- Health insurance -- HIV/AIDS -- Home work -- Hours of work -- Housework -- Human resources development -- Hygiene in the workplace -- I -- Illegal employment -- Illness in the family, leave for -- Indigenous and tribal peoples -- Indirect discrimination -- Informal economy -- Inherent/genuine requirements of the job -- Invalidity benefit -- J -- Job description -- Job evaluation and classification -- L -- Labour administration -- Labour force -- Labour inspection -- Labour market -- Labour statistics -- Lifelong learning -- M -- Marital status -- Maritime labour -- Masculinities -- Maternity leave -- Maternity protection -- Migrant workers -- Millennium Development Goals -- Mines -- Minimum wage -- Mobbing -- N -- Night work -- Non-standard work -- Non-traditional occupations -- Nursing personnel -- O -- Occupational health services -- Occupational safety and health -- Occupational segregation -- Old-age benefit -- Older women workers -- Ombud's offices -- Own-account workers -- P -- Paid educational leave -- Parental leave -- Part-time workers -- Paternity leave -- Pay equity -- Pensions -- Performance appraisal -- Plantation workers -- Positive measures.

Precarious work -- Public employment services and private employment agencies -- Public procurement policies -- R -- Radiation protection -- Remedies and sanctions -- Remote working -- Representation and voice -- Retention of staff -- Rural workers -- S -- Seasonal work -- Selection procedures -- Self-employed workers -- Sexual harassment -- Sexual orientation -- Shift work -- Sick leave -- Sickness insurance -- Small and medium-sized enterprises -- Social dialogue -- Social pacts -- Social protection -- Social security -- Stress -- Structural unemployment -- Survivors' benefit -- T -- Teachers -- Teleworking -- Termination of employment -- Trade unions, gender equality in -- Trafficking in persons -- Tripartism -- Tripartite consultation -- U -- Underemployment -- Underground work -- Unemployment -- Unemployment benefit -- Unpaid work -- V -- Violence at work, gender-based -- Vocational guidance -- Vocational training -- W -- White lead (painting) -- Women in development -- Women's empowerment -- Women's entrepreneurship -- Work-family balance -- Work-life balance -- Workers on temporary contracts -- Workers' organizations -- Working time -- Y -- Youth employment -- Bibliography -- Further resources -- ILO web sites -- CD-ROM resources -- Further reading.