Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

With reference to its previous direct request, the Committee notes the information contained in the Government's latest report on the dominant trend to not take account of agricultural work performed by women, considering such work to constitute domestic work. It also notes that, according to the statistics provided by the Government in Annex No. 1 to its report, no more than 3.7 per cent of women, and 0 per cent of men, work as domestic employees in rural areas, although 48 per cent of women (as compared with 17 per cent of men) are grouped in the occupational category of "unpaid work". In this respect, the Committee notes with interest the Government's stated objective to take action through the National Council for Women (CONAMU) to give wider recognition to the productive contribution of women and to show this contribution in national statistics. The Committee requests the Government to continue supplying information on the action taken in this respect and on the results obtained in achieving equality of treatment for men and women in employment.