Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and UN Women Executive

women empowerment: In a preview of the plan that a high-level panel will outline in September, UN Women executive director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, said core areas to be addressed are digital and financial inclusion; childcare and unpaid care duties; pay equality; structuring the informal sector; entrepreneurship; legislation and international conventions, according to The Guardian. It is almost as though as soon as a sector gets populated by women, it gets degraded Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka We are already engaging with governments around legislation that touches on women empowerment, she said in an interview during the European Development Days conference last week. But the plan has critics, with the head of Oxfam International claiming it risks producing only cosmetic improvements to women opportunities. One example is the convention on domestic work, which has only been ratified by 22 countries. This is a worldwide concern, including in Europe where domestic work is often an entry point for migrant women who use their earnings to support their families and also send out remittances. If you are a domestic worker who needs leave to have a baby, someone else will walk in the door as soon as you go out, and you have no recourse. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.