The next we’re going to talk about the progress of indicator: Women’s Employment.
Women’s access to paid employment in non-agricultural sectors has been increasing slowly over the past two decades. It increased globally from 35 percent in 1990 to 40 percent in 2012. The most impressive progress has been registered in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In addition, lower likelihood of being employed than men, women are far more likely than men to have part time jobs and be in time-related underemployment.
The proportion of women in part-time employment is more than double that of men in almost all countries where data are available. The part-time employment rates are associated with a number of factors such as gender inequality in family roles, the absence of affordable childcare facilities, and other social perceptions in their occupational choices, and in the patterns that reinforce gender disparities in the labor market