Latest items for MULV-LAW-1
Nov. 13, 2024, 12:12 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Mrs Cates wrote in an expanded version of her speech for the PoliticsHome website, the system 'forces' many mothers to return to work before they are ready. Yet high tax rates and benefit withdrawal mean 'they are missing out on precious time with their children for scant reward'. 'We have privatised family life. Having children is now seen as a personal choice, a luxury, like buying a Porsche,' Mrs Cates said. 'But having children shouldn't be a luxury. [It] is a societal necessity.' She acknowledged that housing was another problem that needed fixing but insisted: 'Reforming taxation to recognise the costs and value of raising children, to remove the 'family...more
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Mrs Cates wrote in an expanded version of her speech for the PoliticsHome website, the system 'forces' many mothers to return to work before they are ready. Yet high tax rates and benefit withdrawal mean 'they are missing out on precious time with their children for scant reward'. 'We have privatised family life. Having children is now seen as a personal choice, a luxury, like buying a Porsche,' Mrs Cates said. 'But having children shouldn't be a luxury. [It] is a societal necessity.' She acknowledged that housing was another problem that needed fixing but insisted: 'Reforming taxation to recognise the costs and value of raising children, to remove the 'family...more
April 19, 2024, 3:06 p.m.
Countries: Serbia
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Unemployed women and women employed in the informal sector lack access to social security benefits" (15).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Unemployed women and women employed in the informal sector lack access to social security benefits" (15).
March 30, 2024, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Lithuania
Variables: MULV-LAW-1, CL-LAW-1
"[Lithaunia does not r]ecognize the unpaid care work performed by women, including childcare and care of other dependants, in particular by rural women, and credit it towards their pension entitlements and social benefits" (13).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1, CL-LAW-1
"[Lithaunia does not r]ecognize the unpaid care work performed by women, including childcare and care of other dependants, in particular by rural women, and credit it towards their pension entitlements and social benefits" (13).
Jan. 28, 2024, 6:55 p.m.
Countries: Cote D'Ivoire
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"'I even have great-grandchildren – imagine becoming a mother three times over. First, you have your own children, then when you expect your children to look after you, they have children and you become a grandmother who is left with all the duties the mother would normally take care of, and if that isn’t enough, I am now doing it all over again for my great-grandchildren – mothering them.She says the same thing many of the grandmothers say: My retirement will come the day I’m buried'" (para 10-11). "'Some of them return home once or twice a year, one of them I never saw him again. Those with children have...more
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"'I even have great-grandchildren – imagine becoming a mother three times over. First, you have your own children, then when you expect your children to look after you, they have children and you become a grandmother who is left with all the duties the mother would normally take care of, and if that isn’t enough, I am now doing it all over again for my great-grandchildren – mothering them.She says the same thing many of the grandmothers say: My retirement will come the day I’m buried'" (para 10-11). "'Some of them return home once or twice a year, one of them I never saw him again. Those with children have...more
Jan. 16, 2024, 6:33 p.m.
Countries: Botswana
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"[C]aregivers of people with multiple disabilities (i.e. people with disabilities who need a care-giver round the clock) are allowed to get economic empowerment support on behalf of those living with disability under their care, including their children" (14). "The Employment (Amendment) Act of 2010 has set a minimum pay of 50% salary for women on maternity leave as compared to the previous dispensation where it was left to the discretion of the employer" (19, 30).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"[C]aregivers of people with multiple disabilities (i.e. people with disabilities who need a care-giver round the clock) are allowed to get economic empowerment support on behalf of those living with disability under their care, including their children" (14). "The Employment (Amendment) Act of 2010 has set a minimum pay of 50% salary for women on maternity leave as compared to the previous dispensation where it was left to the discretion of the employer" (19, 30).
Jan. 4, 2024, 10:41 a.m.
Countries: Singapore
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"[T]he Government introduced support measures for Singaporeans, both men and women, to help address loss of income and employment due to the pandemic. These include the Temporary Relief Fund, the COVID-19 Support Grant, and the Self-Employed Person Income Relief Scheme in 2020, as well as the COVID-19 Recovery Grant in 2021. Every Singaporean also received a one-off cash pay-out from the Care and Support package, Solidarity Payment and the Solidarity Utilities Credit" (5).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"[T]he Government introduced support measures for Singaporeans, both men and women, to help address loss of income and employment due to the pandemic. These include the Temporary Relief Fund, the COVID-19 Support Grant, and the Self-Employed Person Income Relief Scheme in 2020, as well as the COVID-19 Recovery Grant in 2021. Every Singaporean also received a one-off cash pay-out from the Care and Support package, Solidarity Payment and the Solidarity Utilities Credit" (5).
Nov. 6, 2023, 11:49 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"[Medical expenses for childbirth] of unemployed women [are] covered by the basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents" (24). “From 2009 to 2016, the Central Government earmarked 22.6 billion yuan as grants for more than 74 million rural pregnant women. Since 2014, the percentage of rural women giving birth in hospitals has remained above 99 per cent" (27). Rural women tend to not have formal jobs (MV-coder comment).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"[Medical expenses for childbirth] of unemployed women [are] covered by the basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents" (24). “From 2009 to 2016, the Central Government earmarked 22.6 billion yuan as grants for more than 74 million rural pregnant women. Since 2014, the percentage of rural women giving birth in hospitals has remained above 99 per cent" (27). Rural women tend to not have formal jobs (MV-coder comment).
Nov. 3, 2023, 11:41 a.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
“The ministry currently accounts for just 0.2% of the government's budget but women say it has made a concrete difference to their lives. Since it was established more than 20 years ago it has… secured more generous child support payments for single mothers” (para 20). It is unclear how it secures these benefits and what more generous means. But the gender equality ministry is a resource that specializes in providing aid to women, including stay-at-home mothers (ET - CODER COMMENT). “South Korea's society and job market are structured in a way that perpetuates its gender pay gap. Women struggle to re-enter the competitive workforce after leaving to have children. They...more
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
“The ministry currently accounts for just 0.2% of the government's budget but women say it has made a concrete difference to their lives. Since it was established more than 20 years ago it has… secured more generous child support payments for single mothers” (para 20). It is unclear how it secures these benefits and what more generous means. But the gender equality ministry is a resource that specializes in providing aid to women, including stay-at-home mothers (ET - CODER COMMENT). “South Korea's society and job market are structured in a way that perpetuates its gender pay gap. Women struggle to re-enter the competitive workforce after leaving to have children. They...more
Oct. 15, 2023, 2:22 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Pretending to lever maintenance for children from absent fathers to give to mothers, it fails again and again. There is a deep political, cultural and legal bias that lets fathers get away with it. It’s the same women-are-to-blame instinct that tilts the benefit system against single mothers" (para 3). It would seem that these benefits exist and are not being distributed to women (ET - CODER COMMENT).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Pretending to lever maintenance for children from absent fathers to give to mothers, it fails again and again. There is a deep political, cultural and legal bias that lets fathers get away with it. It’s the same women-are-to-blame instinct that tilts the benefit system against single mothers" (para 3). It would seem that these benefits exist and are not being distributed to women (ET - CODER COMMENT).
Aug. 24, 2023, 1:08 a.m.
Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: MULV-LAW-1, CL-LAW-1
"[No] steps [are being taken] to recognize, reduce and redistribute the unpaid care and domestic work of rural women through investment in infrastructure and social services such as childcare, elder care, affordable housing and transportation" (13).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1, CL-LAW-1
"[No] steps [are being taken] to recognize, reduce and redistribute the unpaid care and domestic work of rural women through investment in infrastructure and social services such as childcare, elder care, affordable housing and transportation" (13).
July 25, 2023, 10:44 a.m.
Countries: Cambodia
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"[There is a] National social protection policy framework for the period 2016–2025, which is aimed at building an efficient and financially sustainable social protection system, including financial support for pregnant women and children under 2 years of age who are in situations of poverty" (2).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"[There is a] National social protection policy framework for the period 2016–2025, which is aimed at building an efficient and financially sustainable social protection system, including financial support for pregnant women and children under 2 years of age who are in situations of poverty" (2).
April 1, 2023, 9:26 p.m.
Countries: Uzbekistan
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Since 1 March 2019, mothers of children with disabilities since birth receive a social benefit that is paid until the children reach retirement age, in cases where they do not complete the necessary period of pensionable service." (29-30). "Measures to reduce to 12 percent contributions to the universal social fund and to abolish mandatory contributions to State special-purpose funds, levied on the turnover (revenue) of legal entities, have created conditions enabling businesses to accumulate additional funds."(30)(NF - CODER COMMENT - The enabling of businesses and others in the private sector to contribute to the universal social fund allows for more funding to be available for those in dire situations including...more
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Since 1 March 2019, mothers of children with disabilities since birth receive a social benefit that is paid until the children reach retirement age, in cases where they do not complete the necessary period of pensionable service." (29-30). "Measures to reduce to 12 percent contributions to the universal social fund and to abolish mandatory contributions to State special-purpose funds, levied on the turnover (revenue) of legal entities, have created conditions enabling businesses to accumulate additional funds."(30)(NF - CODER COMMENT - The enabling of businesses and others in the private sector to contribute to the universal social fund allows for more funding to be available for those in dire situations including...more
March 18, 2023, 10:20 p.m.
Countries: Ethiopia
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"The legal frameworks further provide for paid maternity leave and guarantee job security during pregnancy and immediately after delivery. In addition, the Civil Servants Proclamation provides for paid paternity leave for five working days at the time of delivery" (16). "The Ethiopian social security scheme covers employees of both the public sector and the private sector. The public servants’ Pension Proclamation No. 714/2011, which came into effect during the reporting period provides for conditions for receiving social security payment during retirement and in the incidence of incapacity to work due to illness and injury. The benefits therein are retirement pension, invalidity pension, incapacity pension or survivors’ pension and include gratuity...more
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"The legal frameworks further provide for paid maternity leave and guarantee job security during pregnancy and immediately after delivery. In addition, the Civil Servants Proclamation provides for paid paternity leave for five working days at the time of delivery" (16). "The Ethiopian social security scheme covers employees of both the public sector and the private sector. The public servants’ Pension Proclamation No. 714/2011, which came into effect during the reporting period provides for conditions for receiving social security payment during retirement and in the incidence of incapacity to work due to illness and injury. The benefits therein are retirement pension, invalidity pension, incapacity pension or survivors’ pension and include gratuity...more
Feb. 6, 2023, 12:07 p.m.
Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"The Committee [on the Elimination of All Forms Discrimination against Women]…remains concerned about…[t]he concentration of women in the informal economy (64 per cent), often in exploitative conditions and without access to labour and social protection, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic" (10). "The Committee...recommends that the State party...ensure maternity protection for women working in the informal economy" (11). "The Committee recommends that the State party…[a]dopt a law on a national care system and transformative fiscal policies and strategies to meet the needs imposed by care work, to reduce the burden of unpaid care work on women, particularly rural women; facilitate access to high-quality and affordable gender-responsive public services in such areas...more
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"The Committee [on the Elimination of All Forms Discrimination against Women]…remains concerned about…[t]he concentration of women in the informal economy (64 per cent), often in exploitative conditions and without access to labour and social protection, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic" (10). "The Committee...recommends that the State party...ensure maternity protection for women working in the informal economy" (11). "The Committee recommends that the State party…[a]dopt a law on a national care system and transformative fiscal policies and strategies to meet the needs imposed by care work, to reduce the burden of unpaid care work on women, particularly rural women; facilitate access to high-quality and affordable gender-responsive public services in such areas...more
Feb. 3, 2023, 2:59 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Tens of thousands of grandparents could be missing out on a little-known pension perk that would boost their income in retirement. The high cost of childcare means increasing numbers of parents rely on relatives to look after their children so they can return to work. But many carers do not realise they are entitled to valuable pension credits that could be worth thousands of pounds to compensate for their time" (para 1-3). "To claim the full new state pension, currently worth £185.15 a week, you need 35 years of National Insurance contributions....If you have children under the age of 12 and claim child benefit, you will automatically receive parents' credits....more
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Tens of thousands of grandparents could be missing out on a little-known pension perk that would boost their income in retirement. The high cost of childcare means increasing numbers of parents rely on relatives to look after their children so they can return to work. But many carers do not realise they are entitled to valuable pension credits that could be worth thousands of pounds to compensate for their time" (para 1-3). "To claim the full new state pension, currently worth £185.15 a week, you need 35 years of National Insurance contributions....If you have children under the age of 12 and claim child benefit, you will automatically receive parents' credits....more
June 21, 2022, 1:11 p.m.
Countries: Guyana
Variables: ERBG-DATA-2, MULV-LAW-1
"The Committee notes the increase in the participation of women in the labour force from 35 per cent in 2012 to 43.6 per cent in 2017 and the ongoing consultations to formalize access to social security benefits for women in the informal sector" (10).
Variables: ERBG-DATA-2, MULV-LAW-1
"The Committee notes the increase in the participation of women in the labour force from 35 per cent in 2012 to 43.6 per cent in 2017 and the ongoing consultations to formalize access to social security benefits for women in the informal sector" (10).
May 30, 2022, 9:08 p.m.
Countries: Switzerland
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"With the particular goal of improving the situation of divorced women who have assumed tasks of upbringing and assistance during the marriage and whose occupational pension is, for that reason, insufficient, an amendment is planned to the regulations (in force) on pension splitting in the event of divorce. Claims on occupational pension institutions can now be shared, even if one of the spouses is already in receipt of a pension. In such a case, the existing legislation calls for pension splitting to be replaced by a fair allowance, often in the form of a maintenance annuity. That poses a problem should the payer of the annuity die: the maintenance annuity...more
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"With the particular goal of improving the situation of divorced women who have assumed tasks of upbringing and assistance during the marriage and whose occupational pension is, for that reason, insufficient, an amendment is planned to the regulations (in force) on pension splitting in the event of divorce. Claims on occupational pension institutions can now be shared, even if one of the spouses is already in receipt of a pension. In such a case, the existing legislation calls for pension splitting to be replaced by a fair allowance, often in the form of a maintenance annuity. That poses a problem should the payer of the annuity die: the maintenance annuity...more
April 17, 2022, 12:06 a.m.
Countries: Sweden
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"The Committee welcomes the State party’s efforts to improve its institutional and policy framework aimed at accelerating the elimination of discrimination against women and promoting gender equality, such as the adoption or establishment of the following: [...] The Committee welcomes the fact that, in the period since the consideration of the previous report, the State party ratified the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) of the International Labour Organization, in 2019" (2).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"The Committee welcomes the State party’s efforts to improve its institutional and policy framework aimed at accelerating the elimination of discrimination against women and promoting gender equality, such as the adoption or establishment of the following: [...] The Committee welcomes the fact that, in the period since the consideration of the previous report, the State party ratified the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) of the International Labour Organization, in 2019" (2).
March 9, 2022, 8:57 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Regarding training to return from maternity/paternity leaves, women represent almost all recipients (98%)" (67).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Regarding training to return from maternity/paternity leaves, women represent almost all recipients (98%)" (67).
July 16, 2021, 3:50 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"For a woman taking two 12 month career breaks in her early 30s, with no increase to pension saving or salary during this time, she can end up having 10% less in her pension pot at retirement compared to a woman with no breaks"(para 2). We can conclude that if a woman took those two 12 month breaks to have children then the state does not provide retirement benefits for women who have children(NK-CODER COMMENT).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"For a woman taking two 12 month career breaks in her early 30s, with no increase to pension saving or salary during this time, she can end up having 10% less in her pension pot at retirement compared to a woman with no breaks"(para 2). We can conclude that if a woman took those two 12 month breaks to have children then the state does not provide retirement benefits for women who have children(NK-CODER COMMENT).
April 26, 2021, 11:49 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Regarding training to return from maternity/paternity leaves, women represent almost all recipients (98%)" (67).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Regarding training to return from maternity/paternity leaves, women represent almost all recipients (98%)" (67).
Feb. 27, 2021, 10:55 a.m.
Countries: Ukraine
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"The MSP has elaborated the list of additional initiatives in the sphere of gender equality and reintegration of mothers to the professional life after return from the child care leave as to granting young mothers an opportunity for free education, retraining or advanced training during the child care leave; encourage employers to hire women after the maternity leave and those who can’t find the job through the employment service; to strengthen responsibility of employers in case of discrimination during acceptance for employment, to grant to mothers an opportunity to use one year of the three year leave at any time until the child reaches the age of eight years, for...more
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"The MSP has elaborated the list of additional initiatives in the sphere of gender equality and reintegration of mothers to the professional life after return from the child care leave as to granting young mothers an opportunity for free education, retraining or advanced training during the child care leave; encourage employers to hire women after the maternity leave and those who can’t find the job through the employment service; to strengthen responsibility of employers in case of discrimination during acceptance for employment, to grant to mothers an opportunity to use one year of the three year leave at any time until the child reaches the age of eight years, for...more
Jan. 31, 2021, 1:58 p.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
The General Labour Act (Act No. 7/15 of 15 June) establishes, in its article 272, the protection of maternity as one of the special rights of working women and sets out the following provisions relating to women’s employment during pregnancy and after childbirth: Employers may not require women to perform, or reduce their salaries for failing to perform, tasks that are contraindicated for their condition or that would require them to work in uncomfortable or harmful positions, and must ensure that they have jobs that are suited to their condition. Employers may not require women to work overtime or transfer them to another job or workplace, unless it is located...more
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
The General Labour Act (Act No. 7/15 of 15 June) establishes, in its article 272, the protection of maternity as one of the special rights of working women and sets out the following provisions relating to women’s employment during pregnancy and after childbirth: Employers may not require women to perform, or reduce their salaries for failing to perform, tasks that are contraindicated for their condition or that would require them to work in uncomfortable or harmful positions, and must ensure that they have jobs that are suited to their condition. Employers may not require women to work overtime or transfer them to another job or workplace, unless it is located...more
Jan. 1, 2021, 3:38 p.m.
Countries: Japan
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Megumi Mikawa, 40, said she did not see how her life had improved under the Abe administration. In July, she quit her clerical job in Nishinomiya, a city in western Japan, because she was unable to perform her duties from home during the pandemic. Because she left the part-time job voluntarily, she was not eligible for unemployment benefits or government subsidies for parents who took time off to care for children while schools were closed because of the coronavirus" (para 28-29).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Megumi Mikawa, 40, said she did not see how her life had improved under the Abe administration. In July, she quit her clerical job in Nishinomiya, a city in western Japan, because she was unable to perform her duties from home during the pandemic. Because she left the part-time job voluntarily, she was not eligible for unemployment benefits or government subsidies for parents who took time off to care for children while schools were closed because of the coronavirus" (para 28-29).
Sept. 17, 2019, 10:05 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Since 2012, China has required companies to offer at least 14 weeks of paid leave to women having children. Fathers typically get two weeks. The disparity means help-wanted ads often openly specify “men only” or “men preferred.”" (para 29).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"Since 2012, China has required companies to offer at least 14 weeks of paid leave to women having children. Fathers typically get two weeks. The disparity means help-wanted ads often openly specify “men only” or “men preferred.”" (para 29).
June 8, 2019, 1:59 p.m.
Countries: Jordan
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"The government provided men with more generous social security benefits than women" (32).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
"The government provided men with more generous social security benefits than women" (32).
May 21, 2019, 9:35 p.m.
Countries: Montenegro
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
The government of Montenegro provides for valuation of nonmonetary contributions, such as staying at home to take care of children or other dependents (115).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
The government of Montenegro provides for valuation of nonmonetary contributions, such as staying at home to take care of children or other dependents (115).
May 21, 2019, 8:59 p.m.
Countries: Mongolia
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
The government of Mongolia provides for valuation of nonmonetary contributions, such as staying at home to take care of children or other dependents (115).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
The government of Mongolia provides for valuation of nonmonetary contributions, such as staying at home to take care of children or other dependents (115).
May 21, 2019, 3:24 p.m.
Countries: Mozambique
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
The government of Mozambique provides for valuation of nonmonetary contributions, such as staying at home to take care of children or other dependents (116).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
The government of Mozambique provides for valuation of nonmonetary contributions, such as staying at home to take care of children or other dependents (116).
May 21, 2019, 2:47 p.m.
Countries: Morocco
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
The government of Morocco does not provide for valuation of nonmonetary contributions, such as staying at home to take care of children or other dependents (116).
Variables: MULV-LAW-1
The government of Morocco does not provide for valuation of nonmonetary contributions, such as staying at home to take care of children or other dependents (116).