The most comprehensive compilation of information on the status of
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Latest items for MULV-DATA-1

Aug. 24, 2023, 1:08 a.m.
Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"[R]ural women continue to carry a disproportionate burden of unpaid care work compared with rural men" (12).
July 25, 2023, 10:44 a.m.
Countries: Cambodia
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"[There are l]imited opportunities for women to pursue their careers in the formal employment sector owing to the disproportionate burden of household and childcare responsibilities placed on them" (11).
July 21, 2023, 11:58 a.m.
Countries: Azerbaijan
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"For the 1st of December 2018, the employment service agencies have reported that 30,400 persons are given the official status of unemployed in the country; 38.1% out of that number are women. In the course of recent years, the share of women is dropped among unemployed people. It was 51,6% in 2005 by decreasing down to 36,3% in 2017" (24). "In 2018, 7267 unemployed citizens and job seekers were covered by the Self-Employment Program. 1309 out of that number are women" (30).
July 10, 2023, 9:26 p.m.
Countries: Maldives
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"The country continues to grapple with a low Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of 58%. Men’s LFPR is at 75% with women’s LFPR only at 42%. These figures, when factored with the unemployment rate, still show the majority of the female population as being categorised as economically inactive. While regionally comparable, Maldivian women’s low LFPR continues to be a stumbling block for the country realising its full potential." (21)(NF - CODER COMMENT - The LFPR is an estimate of an economy's active workforce. It is the number of people over the age of 16 who are employed or actively looking for employment. This is then divided by the total non-institutionalized,...more
March 18, 2023, 10:20 p.m.
Countries: Ethiopia
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"63.1 per cent of women remain outside of the economically active population" (17).
Feb. 27, 2023, 1:02 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"Many women still say nope. No wonder. There’s little escaping suffocating gender norms, whether in pregnancy guidelines to arrange clean undergarments for your husband before labor, or the dayslong kitchen drudgework for holidays like the Chuseok harvest festival. Married women are saddled with the lion’s share of chores and child care, squeezing new mothers so much that many give up professional ambitions. Even in dual-income households, wives daily spend more than three hours on these tasks versus their husband’s 54 minutes. Discrimination against working mothers by employers is also absurdly common. In one notorious case, the country’s top baby formula maker was accused of pressuring female employees to quit after...more
Feb. 4, 2023, 8:40 a.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"[There is a] lack of accessible and affordable childcare facilities" (10).
May 30, 2022, 9:08 p.m.
Countries: Switzerland
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"The involvement of women and men in unpaid work was highly variable depending on the type of activity. Women spend much longer than men on most household and family tasks. Men involve themselves more than women in organized volunteer work (23 per cent compared to 17 per cent). As shown in a FOGE brochure published in 2010, unpaid caregiving has a negative impact on careers and social protection. In addition, it limits choices as regards the division of labour between women and men and increases the risk of poverty. Caregiving, whether paid or unpaid, whether for adults or children, is overwhelmingly women’s work. Accordingly, women bear the brunt of its...more
May 27, 2022, 4:14 p.m.
Countries: Turkey
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"The project aims support 10.250 women who have children and who are at risk of leaving labour market due to their childcare responsibilities, to participate in formal employment, to return to work life or to remain in the labour market by supporting them financially for institutional childcare" (22). A project of this sort indicates that there are issues of women leaving the workforce due to having children (SFR - CODER COMMENT).
March 9, 2022, 8:57 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"If Italian women might reach the same rate of men (70.5%), it would be significantly beneficial to the Italian economy so that its GDP would achieve 17%, corresponding to 260 billion Euros" (61).
Aug. 28, 2021, 11:07 a.m.
Countries: Estonia
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"Results of different surveys confirm that division of care burden in Estonia still reflects rather traditional values. While both partners are expected to supplement to the family s income, the caring duties at home are still often expected to be met by the woman. These attitudes are reflected also in the employment data. The employment rate of men is highest (over 84% in 2010, over 91% in 2013) for men with at least one child below 3 years of age. For such women employment rate is lowest (29% in 2010, 23% in 2013) but raises remarkably right after that. Employment rates for men and women with school aged children were...more
Aug. 12, 2021, 11:41 a.m.
Countries: Palestine
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"The proportion of unwaged family contributing women reaches 46% of all women's labor in Morocco... and 23% in Palestine" (9).
Aug. 12, 2021, 11:41 a.m.
Countries: Tunisia
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"For women's unwaged informal labor, the highest proportions are seen in Bahrain (54%) and Lebanon (58%) due to the importance of female domestic labor for female migrant workers... The lowest share is seen in Tunisia (3%) thanks to the social security systems"(8-9).
Aug. 12, 2021, 11:41 a.m.
Countries: Yemen
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"The proportion of unwaged family contributing women reaches 46% of all women's labor in Morocco[ and] 39% in Yemen" (9).
Aug. 12, 2021, 11:41 a.m.
Countries: Bahrain, Lebanon
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"For women's unwaged informal labor, the highest proportions are seen in Bahrain (54%) and Lebanon (58%) due to the importance of female domestic labor for female migrant workers. It is worth noting that these two countries are characterized by a percentage of women's informal waged labor higher than the total (higher than that of males)"(8-9).
Aug. 12, 2021, 11:41 a.m.
Countries: Egypt
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"For women's unwaged informal labor, the ...lowest share is seen in Tunisia (3%) thanks to the social security systems and in Egypt (8%) due to the scarcity of women's waged labor"(8-9). "The proportion of unwaged family contributing women reaches 46% of all women's labor in Morocco, ...while Egypt (18%)... see[s] significant percentages" (9).
Aug. 12, 2021, 11:41 a.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"The proportion of unwaged family contributing women reaches 46% of all women's labor in Morocco... [and] 33% in Sudan" (9).
Aug. 12, 2021, 11:41 a.m.
Countries: Syria
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"The proportion of unwaged family contributing women reaches 46% of all women's labor in Morocco... and Syria (12%) see[s] significant percentages" (9).
Aug. 12, 2021, 11:41 a.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"The proportion of unwaged family contributing women reaches 46% of all women's labor in Morocco,... while Egypt (18%), Iraq (13%) and Syria (12%) see significant percentages" (9). Thus, 10,402 workers employed within 5,535 households [in Iraq] were surveyed, and the percentage of household workers was highest in rural areas and in Qadisiyah and Karbala governorates. The number of family waged workers did not exceed 1%, while housewives looking after this sector accounted for 36% of the total" (15).
Aug. 12, 2021, 11:41 a.m.
Countries: Morocco
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"The proportion of unwaged family contributing women reaches 46% of all women's labor in Morocco" (9).
Aug. 12, 2021, 11:41 a.m.
Countries: Jordan
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"For women's unwaged informal labor, the highest proportions are seen in Bahrain (54%) and Lebanon (58%) due to the importance of female domestic labor for female migrant workers... The share of women's informal waged labor in Jordan also rises to 46% for the same reason"(8-9).
June 9, 2021, 8:43 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"In 2004, the annual value of thus defined female unpaid household labour amounted to PLN 174,794 million, which accounted for ca. 19 per cent of the gross domestic product" (51).
April 26, 2021, 11:49 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"If Italian women might reach the same rate of men (70.5%), it would be significantly beneficial to the Italian economy so that its GDP would achieve 17%, corresponding to 260 billion Euros" (61).
March 25, 2021, 9:13 p.m.
Countries: Albania
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"Data suggests that Albanian women spend almost a quarter of their day doing unpaid work such as cooking, cleaning, and caring. Men on the other hand do just 3.47%. This equates to Albanian women working 40 hours a month, almost a full working week, for free." (para 7-8).
Jan. 1, 2021, 3:38 p.m.
Countries: Japan
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"And Ms. Hojo, like many women in Japan, cannot accept a full-time job even after Mr. Abe pushed through a law intended to ease Japan’s brutal work culture. Because she shoulders the bulk of housework and child care, the hours at work would be too demanding. 'If there are talented, competent women who get married or have children, their career paths are derailed,' Ms. Hojo said" (para 4-5). "Ms. Hojo, the accountant, said she viewed her destiny as extending beyond motherhood. 'I still have ambition,' she said. When she returned to work after staying home with her newborn daughter for two years, she took a part-time job at the medical...more
Dec. 23, 2020, 9:26 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

In the graph titled 'Rising number of Stay-at-Home Dads,' the number of fathers living with child(ren) younger than 18 who do not work outside the home increased from 1.1 million in 1989 to 2 million in 2012 (para 1). In the table titled 'Growth in Stay-at-Home Fathers Driven by those caring for Family and Those Unable to Find Work,' in 1989, the reasons given by stay-at-home fathers who are not working was 5% caring for home/family, 15% due to being unable to find work, 56% for bieng ill or disabled and 25% for being in school, retired or other. In 2012, the reason was 21% caring for home/family, 23% due...more
Aug. 13, 2020, 9:03 p.m.
Countries: Japan
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"Between the disproportionate amount of unpaid labor women in Japan do — four times more than their male counterparts — and negative attitudes about women in leadership, progress to address the country’s gender imbalance has been slow" (para. 6).
July 12, 2019, 8:51 a.m.
Countries: Cambodia
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"The share of women as unpaid family workers decreased to 6 per cent in 2014 from 24.5 per cent in 2009 at similar rates as men (5 per cent and 22 per cent respectively)" (42).
June 7, 2019, 2:07 p.m.
Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

"In Cabo Verde, in light of gender roles and stereotypes, women are assigned almost exclusive responsibility for domestic work, education of children and family care: on average people dedicate almost 1/3 of their weekly time to unpaid work, 63 hours a week on average for women and 38 for men, a difference of about 24 hours a week on average. Poor women have a higher unpaid work load, up to 10 hours a week on average, for women with low educational level" (22).
April 22, 2019, 6:15 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: MULV-DATA-1

Table no. 28 presents the structure of persons in employment by employment status for 2013-2014. For 2013, 4,7% of the total population in employment were working as unpaid family workers, regarding women, it was 8,9% and for men it was 2,2%. For 2014, 4% of the total population in employment were working as unpaid family workers, regarding women, it was 7,9% and for men it was 1,7% (22).