ILO: 52 Million in Domestic Work Worldwide
This is a cross-post from the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center’s Tula Connell.
Some 52 million people older than 15—primarily women—labor as domestic workers around the world, according to a report released today by the International Labor Organization (ILO). Of those, 83 percent are women. The vast number of domestic workers, 21.4 million, are in Asia and the Pacific region, with 19.6 million in Latin America, 5.2 million in Africa and 2.1 million in the Middle East.
