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Family welfare and well-being
Forced labour
Gender
Gender equality
refers to achieving social, economic and cultural development
of all members in the family without discrimination by sex or
age. Family welfare and well-being will improve if more
resources and benefits come to the family, not only money and
material assets but also knowledge and awareness. If you
know more you have easier access to different kinds of
services for instance, just because you know where to go.
means any work or service that someone is forced to do under
the menace of a penalty and against his or her will.
refers to social differences and relations between men and
women. Gender roles are learned, change over time, and have
a wide variation both within and between cultures. These
differences and relationships are social constructs and are
learned through the socialization process.
or equality between women and men, refers to the equal rights,
responsibilities, opportunities, treatment and valuation of
women and men:
• in employment
• in the relation between work and life
Gender equality includes:
• the same human and workers’ rights
• equal value and fair distribution of:
- responsibilities and opportunities
- workload, decision making and income.
Gender roles
Home work
Human rights
Indirect discrimination
are learned behaviour in a given society, community or social
group, in which people are taught to perceive activities, tasks
and responsibilities as male or female. Gender roles vary by
age, race, ethnicity, culture and religion and by geographical,
economical and political environment. They are context-specific
and can be changed.
is the production of goods or the provision of services to an
employer, subcontractor, middle person or agent in exchange
for remuneration. It is performed under an arrangement
whereby the work is carried out at a place of the worker’s own
choice, often the worker’s own home (ILO).
are basic and absolute rights that a person has by being a
human being. They recognize the vulnerability of the human
being in civil, political, economic, social and cultural processes
and provide protection. Every human being has these rights but
the extent to which they can be enforced in practice varies from
country to country.
refers to apparently neutral situations, regulations, or practices,
which in practice result in unequal treatment of persons with
certain characteristics. It occurs when the same condition,
treatment or criterion is applied to everyone, but results in a
disproportionably harsh impact on persons on the basis of
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