According to data from Women Workers and Unions in Europe on the two major unions, women represented only 18 per cent of the members of the Unión General de Trabajadores and only 13 per cent of the members of Comisiones Obreras in 1992.

Labour unions, female workers' unions and women's unions at the grassroots level will be more proactive and active in assuming the role of supervising law implementation and protecting the legitimate and lawful interests of female workers.

Femmes actives au foyer (Union nationale)

WOMEN IN TRADE UNION ORGANIZATIONS

This is in keeping with the Resolution Unions For Women, Women for Unions adopted by the ICFTU's 18th World Congress (December, 2004).

Among trade unions, which should be strong advocates for enforcing women's rights and equity in the work force, women account for only 1 percent of the leaders but 40 percent of their membership.

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Ms. M. Eldon and Ms. R. Waters (FICSA CCISUA)

The commission participates in the work of the ICFTU (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions) Women's Committee.

Women are very poorly represented in trade unions.

WAGGGS works with girls and young women.

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Women's interest and number in trade unions has increased, and so has their participation in training events.

International Association of Schools Ms. Lena Dominelli of Social Work

International Federation of Social Workers Ms. Ellen Mouravieff Apostol

International Council of Jewish Women

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Fédération européenne des femmes actives au foyer

F.serv. Women and access to new jobs

Department for the Advancement of Women

Women Trade Union activities are not financed from regular funds of the Trade Unions.

Women who did not belong to the Women's Union could join other trades unions or women's organizations.

20. Promote actions involving trade unions and women apos s organizations to increase women apos s participation in the workforce.

The work of the newly created Inter Agency Committee on Women should complement and reinforce the work of the Commission on the Status of Women.

In addition, the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, under the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999, works with employers to assist them to achieve equal opportunity for female employees.

Thereafter, girls might be given to brothel owners, and both boys and girls are taken to work in factories.

Increasingly, women are participating in union work across the board, including at the highest levels of union leadership.

Both of these organizations are members of ICFTU women network, part of Regional Trade Union women network for South and South East Europe.

286. The absence of women among leaders of trade unions and trade union organizations seems to be attributable, firstly, to their limited employment in the jobs classically represented by trade unions (there are fewer and fewer women workers, but more and more are entering the informal sector), and second, by the close ties between the leaders of trade unions and of political parties, primarily made up of men.

Work with girls and female teachers is carried out by AMME and research is under the auspices of CEA.

4. Education and training of working women (Women apos s sections of trade unions and the Institute of Labour Studies), from 1993 onwards.

Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999

Few women occupy the position of secretary general of a trade union.

Associations of the Trade Unions in BiH (SSSBiH and SSSRS) founded a Section (today Forum of women) and professional section of women, therefore formally meeting the international standards.

The representation of women has risen to 16.3 per cent in the leadership of the Federation of Trade Unions and to 20 per cent in the occupational trade unions.

Therefore, Government, in particular Ministry of Manpower and MOWE has been working closely with CSO's in particular Labor Unions, Employer Unions and Women Advocates for Women's Workers Rights to formulate Guidelines on Equal Employment Opportunities in order to speed up full implementation of international labor standards.

The system of boards of women work under the Confederation of Labour Unions of Vietnam has also continued to be developed in administrative agencies and state owned enterprises to enhance the capacity in promoting gender equality and rights of female workers.

In 1993, according to the census conducted by the Ministry of Labour, there were 2,817 trade unions with 912,208 members, including 293,968 women (32.23 ).

She wondered how a 500 member trade union could adequately represent the country's 150,000 prostitutes and whether the 7,000 female domestic workers had their own trade union.

IFWL apos s concentration has been in the Commission on the Status of Women, the Commission on Human Rights, the Commission on Sustainable Development, the Commission on Population and Development, and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and has also worked closely with the United Nations Children apos s Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), participating in its 78th Session in 1991.

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Women are scarcely or insufficiently represented in decision making bodies, and invisible at the top of the Trade Union, although they make 45 of the total Trade Union membership.

Continuing campaigns of the union movement to ensure effective organizing of women workers, including organizing support to women workers in the informal sector and EPZs.

New York, UNICEF Working Group on Girls.

The following table shows the participation of women in labour unions