Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

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

The Committee notes the detailed information and statistics provided by the Government in response to its previous observation concerning the practical application of the Act on Equal Status and Equal Rights for Women and Men, No. 28 of 1991, as well as the explanations on the Government's second Four-Year Plan of Action on Measures to Achieve Equality between the Sexes (1991-94).

The Committee is addressing a direct request to the Government on, inter alia, the findings of the Equal Status Council's interim report on the equal opportunity programmes of government ministries and state institutions (which reveal that equality in employment between the sexes has been prevented to a large extent by circumstances claimed to be beyond the control of the institutions such as women's and men's traditional educational and occupational choices).