The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 is substantially focused on the achievement of better living conditions for all citizens, hence, it is laden with agenda designed towards all round gender equality. The singular reason for this is to maximise economic productivity which will result in good quality of life among all. SDG 8 craved the fulfilment of the promotion of sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. The International Labour Organisation [ILO] (2019) outlined decent work in the context of gender equality to include: equality of opportunity and treatment, equality of remuneration and access to safe and healthy working environment, equality in association and collective bargaining, equality in obtaining meaningful career development, maternity protection and balance between work and family life that is fair to both men and women. Engaging women in decent work and empowering them is very crucial to the Sub-Saharan Africa’s nosediving economy because it will be inclusive of both gender and that is needed to positively change the present odious situation. Unfortunately, this is still far from being achieved because women who are up to half (50.1%) of the region’s population are not given an enabled environment to thrive and contribute to national development through decent works. Fewer number of women in the region are engaged in formal labour force while the majority are into informal and vulnerable employment including unpaid care and domestic chores. This situation prevents them from managerial positions and decision-making process as well as limit their economic and psychological wellbeing.

Justification: Statisticians and WSC attendees from Low-and-Middle-Income Countries including Sub-Saharan Africans will benefit from attending this session by learning how different sociocultural factors cum economic and legal processes limit the full benefits of equality in decent works. Five speakers with different statistical research will share how women have been disadvantaged from decent work in all its different manifestations with copious policy implication recommendations. 

Organiser: Prof. Femi Barnabas Adebola 

Chair: Prof. Femi Barnabas Adebola 

Speaker: Oluwadare olatunde OJO 

Speaker: Oluwaseun Ayobami ADESINA 

Speaker: Roseline Jumoke Kolawole 

Speaker: Dr Olusegun Sunday Ewemooje 

Discussant:  Olukemi Grace ADEBOLA