Women still discriminated against: ILO

JAKARTA: Discrimination against women remains rampant in Indonesian workplaces, the International Labor Organization (ILO) says.

In its report titled Time for Equality at Work, the ILO said that discrimination took various forms, but the most blatant example was discrimination over wages.

In many countries, female employees were mostly placed in low- paid jobs, Antara quoted the report as saying. Women also received lower wages than their fellow male workers, even if they had same level of education.

Indonesia was no exception, the report said.

A survey by the Central Statistics Body (BPS) showed that on average, female university graduates received less than 25 percent of the pay received by their male colleagues, said the report, which was released last Monday in Geneva.

The Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, collaborating with the State Ministry for Women's Empowerment, are slated to jointly disseminate the report to the Indonesian public on Monday. --JP