Facts
and Figures: Economic Empowerment
Benefits of economic empowerment
Women’s economic empowerment is central to realizing women’s
rights and gender equality. Women’s economic empowerment
includes women’s ability to participate equally in existing
markets; their access to and control over productive resources,
access to decent work, control over their own time, lives and
bodies; and increased voice, agency and meaningful participation
in economic decision-making at all levels from the household
to international institutions.
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Women
in the Labor Force in 2010
Of
the 123 million women age 16 years and over in the U.S., 72
million, or 58.6 percent, were labor force participants—working
or looking for work.
Women comprised 47 percent of the total U.S. labor force.
Women are projected to account for 51 percent of the increase
in total labor force growth between 2008 and 2018.
66 million women were employed in the U.S.--73 percent of employed
women worked on full-time jobs, while 27 percent worked on a
part-time basis.
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Facts You Need to Know About Women Working Around the World
Every day, millions of women in developing countries work hard
to care for themselves and their families. You might find them
cooking hours over a smoky fire, taking care of their young
children, labouring long hours in a factory or harvesting vegetables
in the field. Without the contributions of these women, economies
would collapse.
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7
Striking Facts About the State of Women in the Workplace in
2018
Women’s representation in the corporate world isn’t
improving in leaps and bounds. Not even in leaps or bounds.
It actually hasn’t improved much at all in the last few
years.
At least that’s one of the top-level findings of the 2018
Women in the Workplace report recently released by McKinsey
& Company and LeanIn.Org.
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Working
women: Key facts and trends in female labor force participation
Our World in Data presents the empirical evidence on global
development in articles dedicated to specific topics. You can
read more about female labor force participation in a companion
blog post which discusses the determinants driving the changes
described below.
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