Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (April 2016) Designing more flexible social protection schemes that adjust to the particular needs of women in informal work requires a careful assessment of the obstacles they face in accessing social protection. This paper provides an overview of the barriers women face in accessing social protection, which in some cases are rooted in the nature of informality and in other cases are gender-specific. Both need to be taken into account when designing social protection schemes for informal female workers.

includeplatform.net (26.01.2016) Applying a gender lens to social protection policies is necessary to reduce inequality between men and women and make development more inclusive. This is the main message from a new paper by Julie Newton for INCLUDE, ‘Making Social Protection Gender Sensitive for Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa’.

ansa.int (24.09.2015) 'Age central factor' to closing gender gap says INPS chief

The New Republic (25.08.2015) Each week, Sweden’s national Twitter account allows a different Swede to take over tweeting and tell his or her story. Last week it was Louise Samet, a new mom and an employee of Swedish e-commerce giant Klarna. But unlike Amazon, where women only receive eight weeks of paid leave and men receive none, Klarna supplements  68 weeks of paid leave, which is split evenly between mothers and fathers.

The Guardian (14.07.2015) Despite living longer, women are still lagging behind men when it comes to retirement plans. Are you preparing adequately for later life?

ilo.org (07.05.2015) As several countries around the world prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day, two new ILO studies provide new global and country data that point to the urgent need to increase social protection for mothers and children.