Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Czechia (Ratification: 1993)

Article 2 of the Convention. Equality of opportunity of men and women in employment and occupation. The Committee recalls that the employment rate of women remains low and the labour market remains significantly segregated by gender. The Committee welcomes the adoption of the Government’s Strategy for equality of “Women and Men for 2014–20 which Constitutes the Basic Framework for the Yearly Updated Measures for Priorities and Policies of the Government in Promoting Equal Opportunities for Women and Men”. The Strategy identifies a number of issues: such as low employment of women, high number of women threatened by poverty, high horizontal and vertical gender segregation of the labour market, discrimination of women as a result of childcare, lack of knowledge of employers in the area of gender equality, low number of women-entrepreneurs and the existence of harassment and sexual harassment at the workplace. The Strategy sets a number of goals and comprehensive measures to address the issues through the support to gender non-stereotyped education and employment, the promotion of employment of women and the reconciliation of work and family responsibilities. The Committee notes from the Government’s report that the Labour Office continues to implement projects to promote employment of women and men with family responsibilities, with counselling and vocational training measures. The Committee requests the Government to provide information, including statistics, on the results achieved by the measures taken on the basis of the Government Strategy for Equality of Women and Men 2014–20 and their actual impact on the employment of women, including women with family responsibilities. The Committee further requests the Government to provide information on any measures taken, in cooperation with workers’ and employers’ organizations, to address occupational gender segregation and promote equal opportunities for men and women with respect to access to a wider range of jobs, including any measures aimed at addressing gender stereotypes in education, vocational training and employment, and the results thereof. It requests the Government to continue to provide statistical information on the situation of men and women in employment, by economic sector and professional category.