Skip To Content
Books & Book Chapters

Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty

By , , , , on January 01, 2005

"This publication makes the case for an increased focus on women's informal employment as a key pathway to reducing poverty and strengthening women's economic security. It provides the latest available data on the size and composition of the informal economy and compares national data on average earnings and poverty risk across different segments of the informal and formal workforces in six developing countries and one developed country to show the links between employment, gender and poverty. It looks at the costs and benefits of informal work and their consequences for women's economic security. Finally, it provides a strategic framework — with good practice examples — for how to promote decent work for women informal workers, and shows why strong organizations of workers in the informal economy are vital to effective policy reforms.

"This report can and should be used as a call to action to help advocates, policy makers, governments and the international community 'make poverty history.'"

UN Women website

View list of all: Books & Book Chapters

Download the PDF(this link opens in new window)

Citation Information

Vanek, Joann, Lund, Francie, Heintz, James, Jhabvala, Renana, and Bonner, Christine. Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty. , , . , 2005. https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Chen-PoWW2005_eng.pdfVanek, J., Lund, F., Heintz, J., Jhabvala, R., and Bonner, C. (2005). Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty. , , . https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Chen-PoWW2005_eng.pdfVanek, Joann, Lund, Francie, Heintz, James, Jhabvala, Renana, and Bonner, Christine. "Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty." 2005, .Vanek Joann, Lund Francie, Heintz James, Jhabvala Renana, and Bonner Christine. "Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty." (2005). https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Chen-PoWW2005_eng.pdfVanek, J, Lund, F, Heintz, J, Jhabvala, R, and Bonner, C 2005, 'Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty', , , . https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Chen-PoWW2005_eng.pdfJoann Vanek, Francie Lund, James Heintz, Renana Jhabvala, and Christine Bonner, 'Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty' (2005). Vanek J., Lund F., Heintz J., Jhabvala R., and Bonner C. Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty. . 2005. https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Chen-PoWW2005_eng.pdfVanek, Joann, Lund, Francie, Heintz, James, Jhabvala, Renana, and Bonner, Christine. Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty. . 2005. , . https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Chen-PoWW2005_eng.pdf

The WIEGO Research Library

WIEGO is at the forefront of developing statistics and research to help audiences understand the informal economy. Our library includes over two decades-worth of informal economy research, policy analysis, statistics and documentation of organizing efforts.