ABSTRACT
This chapter enables the participants to understand the difference between women's work and the informal and formal sectors. It explains the distinction between nondiscrimination and equality of opportunity, and define what it means to have human rights in the workplace. The chapter defines affirmative action and concludes whether it is an appropriate strategy. It also defines sexual harassment and identifies possible cases in the community and explores the measures for promoting women's human rights related to work. The chief United Nations organ charged with development - the UN Development Program - has recognized that women's work is greatly undervalued in economic terms. Most economic measures, such as the gross national product (GNP), do not considers the work performed by many women in making their calculations. Actually, globally, women work more hours than men, especially in rural and developing countries. Many activists throughout the world have organized around the need to value women's labor.
