Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) - Jordan (Ratification: 1963)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

1. The Committee notes that the Labour Code, which was to contain the principles set out in the Convention, has not yet been adopted. The Committee hopes that it will be possible to adopt this Code in the near future and that the Government will not fail to supply a copy of it once adopted.

2. The Committee also notes, from the statistics supplied with the Government's report, that the participation rate for women in the employment market in the urban sector, although it has risen to a certain extent in recent years, remains rather low, and was 12.5 per cent in 1985. However, in the agricultural sector, this rate decreased from 1.1 per cent in 1979 to 0.5 per cent in 1984. The Committee, however, notes with interest the efforts made by the Government to combat illiteracy, which the Government states is still rather high among women, particularly in rural areas, and to promote the access of girls to education and vocational training. The Committee notes, in particular, that the development plans for 1986 to 1990 aim to increase the participation of women in social, economic and political life and, among other measures, envisage the establishment of appropriate educational programmes and the creation of various vocational and craft training centres for women. These plans will be carried out by the Noor Al-Hussein Foundation with the co-operation of the General Union of Jordanian Women and the Department of Women's Affairs of the Ministry of Social Development. The Committee requests the Government to supply detailed information in its next report, including statistics, on the implementation of these plans and the results obtained, both as regards the access of women to vocational training and to employment.

3. With reference to the request it made in 1987, the Committee notes the Government's statement that no decision has been taken by the Ministry of Education to prohibit married women from working as teachers.