Women and Precarious Employment: A Framework for Policy Recommendations (2005)

Across Canada and around the world, women are increasingly forced to take jobs that are unstable, unprotected and unable to support themselves or their families. On top of their family and community responsibilities, women are scrambling to make ends meet with short-term, part-time, casual and seasonal employment; piece work, home work, selling in the streets. Oxfam Canada members, volunteers and staff have studied this question, looking at the consequences and the root causes of Women and Precarious Work.