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Below are select introductory materials on business and gender discrimination. Further reports from a wide range of sources are in the "Gender discrimination" section of this site.
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Labour market discrimination still a big problem in OECD countries, OECD, Jul 2008
Global Employment Trends for Women 2008, International Labour Organization (ILO), Mar 2008
State Responsibilities to Regulate and Adjudicate Corporate Activities under the United Nations’ core Human Rights Treaties - Individual Report on the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women [PDF], Prepared for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises, With the support of The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, September 2007
Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls in 2009. Girls in the Global Economy: Adding It All Up, Plan International, September 2009
World Economic Forum Launches New Gender Gap Index Measuring Inequality Between Women And Men In 58 Countries, Middle East North Africa Financial Network (MENAFN) May 2005
[PDF] World Report 2009 - Employment Discrimination against Women [scroll to pg. 430] [Ukraine], Human Rights Watch, 14 Jan 2009
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