
With empowerment and the changing world of work as this year’s focus, the Commission also recognized that women continue to shoulder the bulk of unpaid care and domestic work, and established a blueprint for governments to reduce and redistribute this work through public services, labour and social protections, and affordable child and other care services.
Despite the progressive outcome of the negotiations, the Commission remained reluctant to name specific groups of people who suffer from marginalization in all regions of the world because of their race, ethnicity, caste, class, disability, age, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or sex characteristics.