measuring progress and identifying challenges
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- Digitaal
- Thesaurus
- arbeidsmarkt, arbeidsparticipatie, wereld, 21e eeuw, rapport
- Description
- 'This report shows that there is a sort of inevitability about women’s increasing engagement in labour markets. Between 1980 and 2008, the rate of female labour force participation increased from 50.2 to 51.7 per cent. In countries and regions where participation rates at the beginning of the period were below the world median, the increases were much more dramatic. .On the other hand, in some countries where female labour force participation was much higher than the median in 1980, probably due to the prevalence of poverty in the country and the necessity of working for survival, the rates showed a decline over the period. What this means is that over time there has been both a general increase in female economic participation and a shrinking of the distance between countries with low levels and countries with high levels of participations.''