Lifting Legal Barriers to Women’s Employment in Azerbaijan

Lifting Legal Barriers to Women’s Employment in Azerbaijan

This report: (i) explains economic and legal implications of current job restrictions to women for Azerbaijan, (ii) provides compelling arguments to move away from a job-title centric form of restricting and protecting women to an exposure focused...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: World Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:
FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
EMPLOYMENT
LABOR POLICY
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RISK
JOB RESTRICTION
SUBSTANCE EXPOSURE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/599111614230102718/Lifting-Legal-Barriers-to-Women-s-Employment-in-Azerbaijan
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35229
id okr-10986-35229
recordtype oai_dc
spelling okr-10986-352292021-04-23T14:02:19Z Lifting Legal Barriers to Women’s Employment in Azerbaijan World Bank FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION EMPLOYMENT LABOR POLICY OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RISK JOB RESTRICTION SUBSTANCE EXPOSURE This report: (i) explains economic and legal implications of current job restrictions to women for Azerbaijan, (ii) provides compelling arguments to move away from a job-title centric form of restricting and protecting women to an exposure focused rationale, and provides other country examples that follow an exposure-focused risk approach, (iii) describes the methodology used to assess OH hazards/risks attributed to each job restricted to women, critically reviews restricted jobs and provides resultant conclusions, and (iv) recommends changes to reform Labor Code and subsidiary legislation to align them with other national legislation, international conventions and good international practice. Importantly, the report provides suggestions on how to address the ramifications resulting from these changes. It is of note that this assessment is first of its kind for Azerbaijan to systematically and methodologically review job restrictions to women from a perspective of occupational health hazards and risks using available evidence. 2021-03-09T20:19:39Z 2021-03-09T20:19:39Z 2020-10-04 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/599111614230102718/Lifting-Legal-Barriers-to-Women-s-Employment-in-Azerbaijan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35229 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Social Protection Study Europe and Central Asia Azerbaijan
repository_type Digital Repository
institution_category Foreign Institution
institution Digital Repositories
building World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection World Bank
language English
topic FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
EMPLOYMENT
LABOR POLICY
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RISK
JOB RESTRICTION
SUBSTANCE EXPOSURE
spellingShingle FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
EMPLOYMENT
LABOR POLICY
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RISK
JOB RESTRICTION
SUBSTANCE EXPOSURE
World Bank
Lifting Legal Barriers to Women’s Employment in Azerbaijan
geographic_facet Europe and Central Asia
Azerbaijan
description This report: (i) explains economic and legal implications of current job restrictions to women for Azerbaijan, (ii) provides compelling arguments to move away from a job-title centric form of restricting and protecting women to an exposure focused rationale, and provides other country examples that follow an exposure-focused risk approach, (iii) describes the methodology used to assess OH hazards/risks attributed to each job restricted to women, critically reviews restricted jobs and provides resultant conclusions, and (iv) recommends changes to reform Labor Code and subsidiary legislation to align them with other national legislation, international conventions and good international practice. Importantly, the report provides suggestions on how to address the ramifications resulting from these changes. It is of note that this assessment is first of its kind for Azerbaijan to systematically and methodologically review job restrictions to women from a perspective of occupational health hazards and risks using available evidence.
format Report
author World Bank
author_facet World Bank
author_sort World Bank
title Lifting Legal Barriers to Women’s Employment in Azerbaijan
title_short Lifting Legal Barriers to Women’s Employment in Azerbaijan
title_full Lifting Legal Barriers to Women’s Employment in Azerbaijan
title_fullStr Lifting Legal Barriers to Women’s Employment in Azerbaijan
title_full_unstemmed Lifting Legal Barriers to Women’s Employment in Azerbaijan
title_sort lifting legal barriers to women’s employment in azerbaijan
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/599111614230102718/Lifting-Legal-Barriers-to-Women-s-Employment-in-Azerbaijan
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35229
_version_ 1764482597303353344

Similar Items