…A) SOCIALLY: think of SOCIAL PROTECTION ARE WOMEN AND MEN EQUALLY VULNERABLE? …A) SOCIALLY: think of SOCIAL PROTECTION SELF-DETERMINATION/ SOCIAL INCLUSION DEPENDENCE/POVERTY/SOCIAL EXCLUSION Gender is part of the broader socio-cultural context, that tends to associate attributes and opportunities with being male and female, building a system of stereotypes socially constructed and learned through socialization processes. Such gender-based differences often turn into discrimination between women and men in responsibilities assigned, activities undertaken, access to and control over resources, as well as decision-making opportunities. A clear example of such inequality is the recognition and exercise of the human right to social protection. DEF OF SOCIAL PROTECTION: set of policies and programs designed to reduce vulnerability by diminishing people's exposure to risks, and enhancing their capacity to manage economic and social risks, such as unemployment, exclusion, sickness, disability and old age. Women tend to are quantitatively and qualitatively worse covered by social protection than men: in fact, on the quantitative point of view, less women than men are covered by adequate social protection; on the qualitative point of view, even when covered, women use to have access to a lower set of social protection benefits. This is true both at the level of the social protection floor (meaning income security and access to essential services such as health, education, water and sanitation, housing among others) and at the level of contributive social protection schemes related to formal employment.

…B) ECONOMICALLY: think of EMPLOYMENT ARE WOMEN AND MEN EQUALLY VULNERABLE? …B) ECONOMICALLY: think of EMPLOYMENT PRODUCTIVE WORK REPRODUCTIVE WORK Gender stereotypes have a direct impact on women’s opportunities to participate to economic life, starting from having less access to financial resources in family structures, to their possibility to effectively participate to the world of work in conditions of equality. In fact, women willing to work have to face discriminatory phenomena such as sexual division of work, employment segregation and direct/ indirect discrimination, gender pay gap, difficulties in upward mobility, problems of conciliation between professional and family life. Even in the new green economy scenario, the lack of gender equality is decreasing the access of women to green positions in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. As Sustainlabour points out, “although women are the foundation of sustainable households, women agricultural workers in poor countries are a marginalized group. Most green jobs are expected to be in the secondary sectors of construction, manufacturing and energy production, where women are significantly underrepresented. Women may fare better in the tertiary sector where most are now employed. However, men dominate the better paid jobs in engineering, financial and business services, where the bulk of green service positions are likely to be created”. ___ See ILO, “Equality at work: tackling the challenges”, Global Report of the Director General of the ILO to the 2007 International Labour Conference, p. 16-23. See: http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@dgreports/@dcomm/@webdev/documents/publication/wcms_082607.pdf International Labour Foundation for Sustainable Development (Sustainlabour), Green Jobs and Women Workers: Employment, Equity, Equality; Draft Report, at: http://www.sustainlabour.org/IMG/pdf/women.en.pdf

…C) ENVIRONMENTALLY: think of CLIMATE CHANGE ARE WOMEN AND MEN EQUALLY VULNERABLE? …C) ENVIRONMENTALLY: think of CLIMATE CHANGE ACCESS to OPPORTUNITIES and CAPITAL/RESOURCES less ACCESS to OPPORTUNITIES and CAPITAL/RESOURCES Gender differences in social and economic roles and responsibilities exacerbate also environmental vulnerability, so that women are at higher risk and are disproportionately affected by climate change and environmental degradation. In fact the International Union for the Conservation of Nature- IUCN- notes that “worldwide, women have less access than men to resources that would enhance their capacity to adapt to climate change, including land, credit, agricultural inputs, decision-making bodies, technology and training services”. Given the high participation of women in agriculture in many developing countries, natural phenomena such as floods, droughts, deforestation, water scarcity, energy deficiency affect women in their roles at work, as well as in the domestic and community spheres. Droughts have made women’s work more burdensome, and have intensified poverty and malnutrition in families and children. Moreover, women’s dependency on natural resources puts them in a further disadvantaged position to overcome economic and environmental distress. Particularly for the vast majority of women working in the informal sector and in small enterprises, lacking capital and access to credit and information, recovering from the devastating effects of environmental disasters is nearly impossible. ____   Aguilar, L., Is there a connection between gender and climate change?, International Union for the Conversation of Nature (IUCN), Office of the Senior Gender Adviser, quoted by ILO, Green Jobs: Improving Climate for gender equality too., ibid., p.2. ILO, Global Trends of Employment for Women 2009, ww.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@dgreports/@dcomm/documents/publication/wcms_103456.pdf. ILO, Gender and Green Jobs: Policy Brief, p. 2.

A) HOW TO MAKE TRANSITION “JUST” FOR WOMEN through.. GREEN AND DECENT JOBS Given this scenario, the only way to assure a “just” transition for both women and men implies the correction of such gender inequality. From women’ point of view, it will make the difference between having a just transition, and having “just a transition” to another discriminatory model. The session on “Gender Equality in Just Transition” will propose strategies and indicators for mainstreaming gender in three key areas: 3 STRATEGIES FOR GENDER EQUALITY IN JUST TRANSITION GREEN AND DECENT WORK for women workers; Extension of social PROTECTION for women; Fostering women’s PARTICIPATION in decision making process and social dialogue. GROUP WORK 2: POLICIES FOR A “GENDER-JUST” TRANSITION   Participants will come back to the 3 groups. Each group will be given cards with key words, as well as other empty cards. They will have. have 15 minutes to gather and agree key-ideas to the following questions: “JOBS” GROUP: Select 3 policies you consider crucial to promote green and decent jobs for women workers. “SOCIAL PROTECTION” GROUP: Select 3 policies you consider crucial to extend social protection for women. “PARTICIPATION” GROUP: Select 3 policies you consider crucial to foster effective women’ participation of decision making processes and social dialogue. At the end of the group discussion, a group’s representative will share with the plenary the group’s vision. Starting from groups’ observations, the facilitator will include the main elements and proposed indicators as described below. ___ The reference for the indicators proposed is the result of the Rio+20 Side Event “Partnerships for advancing Gender Equality and Sustainability” organized by UNDESA, UNEP and IUCN, June the 22nd, 2012, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. The indicators have been proposed by WEDO- the Women for Environment and Development Organization, and Sustainlabour – the International Labour Foundation for Sustainable Development, and validated during the “Job Hub” of the Event. See: http://www.uncsd2012.org/index.php?page=view&type=1012&nr=3&menu=23

b) HOW TO MAKE TRANSITION “JUST” FOR WOMEN through.. SOCIAL PROTECTION Given this scenario, the only way to assure a “just” transition for both women and men implies the correction of such gender inequality. From women’ point of view, it will make the difference between having a just transition, and having “just a transition” to another discriminatory model. The session on “Gender Equality in Just Transition” will propose strategies and indicators for mainstreaming gender in three key areas: 3 STRATEGIES FOR GENDER EQUALITY IN JUST TRANSITION GREEN AND DECENT WORK for women workers; Extension of social PROTECTION for women; Fostering women’s PARTICIPATION in decision making process and social dialogue. GROUP WORK 2: POLICIES FOR A “GENDER-JUST” TRANSITION   Participants will come back to the 3 groups. Each group will be given cards with key words, as well as other empty cards. They will have. have 15 minutes to gather and agree key-ideas to the following questions: “JOBS” GROUP: Select 3 policies you consider crucial to promote green and decent jobs for women workers. “SOCIAL PROTECTION” GROUP: Select 3 policies you consider crucial to extend social protection for women. “PARTICIPATION” GROUP: Select 3 policies you consider crucial to foster effective women’ participation of decision making processes and social dialogue. At the end of the group discussion, a group’s representative will share with the plenary the group’s vision. Starting from groups’ observations, the facilitator will include the main elements and proposed indicators as described below. ___ The reference for the indicators proposed is the result of the Rio+20 Side Event “Partnerships for advancing Gender Equality and Sustainability” organized by UNDESA, UNEP and IUCN, June the 22nd, 2012, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. The indicators have been proposed by WEDO- the Women for Environment and Development Organization, and Sustainlabour – the International Labour Foundation for Sustainable Development, and validated during the “Job Hub” of the Event. See: http://www.uncsd2012.org/index.php?page=view&type=1012&nr=3&menu=23

c) HOW TO MAKE TRANSITION “JUST” FOR WOMEN through.. PARTICIPATION Given this scenario, the only way to assure a “just” transition for both women and men implies the correction of such gender inequality. From women’ point of view, it will make the difference between having a just transition, and having “just a transition” to another discriminatory model. The session on “Gender Equality in Just Transition” will propose strategies and indicators for mainstreaming gender in three key areas: 3 STRATEGIES FOR GENDER EQUALITY IN JUST TRANSITION GREEN AND DECENT WORK for women workers; Extension of social PROTECTION for women; Fostering women’s PARTICIPATION in decision making process and social dialogue. GROUP WORK 2: POLICIES FOR A “GENDER-JUST” TRANSITION   Participants will come back to the 3 groups. Each group will be given cards with key words, as well as other empty cards. They will have. have 15 minutes to gather and agree key-ideas to the following questions: “JOBS” GROUP: Select 3 policies you consider crucial to promote green and decent jobs for women workers. “SOCIAL PROTECTION” GROUP: Select 3 policies you consider crucial to extend social protection for women. “PARTICIPATION” GROUP: Select 3 policies you consider crucial to foster effective women’ participation of decision making processes and social dialogue. At the end of the group discussion, a group’s representative will share with the plenary the group’s vision. Starting from groups’ observations, the facilitator will include the main elements and proposed indicators as described below. ___ The reference for the indicators proposed is the result of the Rio+20 Side Event “Partnerships for advancing Gender Equality and Sustainability” organized by UNDESA, UNEP and IUCN, June the 22nd, 2012, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. The indicators have been proposed by WEDO- the Women for Environment and Development Organization, and Sustainlabour – the International Labour Foundation for Sustainable Development, and validated during the “Job Hub” of the Event. See: http://www.uncsd2012.org/index.php?page=view&type=1012&nr=3&menu=23