The austerity being imposed around the world upon women has been devastating. Women are the fastest-growing segment among the ranks of the impoverished. Women who are at the head of single-family homes are almost always among the poorest families.
Women still make little more than half the money men make for the same work.
And in the United States, women still do not have the Equal Rights Amendment to protect and guarantee their rights. The rights of women to control their own bodies are under constant attack by right-wing reactionaries, who are empowered by the bosses and by governments of all political stripes. And the assault on working women is only going to get worse. Just look at what happened to ILO Convention 138, which calls for the abolition of child labor. And then last year, ILO Convention 103, which protects women's maternity rights, was overturned.