Employers need to do more to support breastfeeding women in the workplace –UNICEF, ILO
Employers need to do more to support breastfeeding women in the workplace –UNICEF, ILO
ILO Philippines
2023-08-01
English
Manila, Philippines - In commemoration of World Breastfeeding Week on 1-7 August, the UN agencies for children and labour rights, UNICEF and the International Labour Organization (ILO), called on employers in the Philippines to do more to support breastfeeding women.
In the Philippines, a 2019 study by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) found that marriage and childbearing are associated with a significant decline in the female labour force participation. The COVID-19 pandemic also worsened the uneven share of housework and family care between women and men, with over 2 million moms around the globe leaving the labour force in 2020.
