Female labor force participation rates

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• A woman has the same rights to remarry as a man
• Average age at marriage, women
• Average daily time spent by women on domestic work (paid and unpaid)
• Average usual weekly hours worked, women 15 years and older
• Change in children per woman and female labor force participation
• Child marriage prohibited or invalidated
• Countries by share of women in parliament
• Countries in which a woman is government's chief executive
• Countries in which a woman is head of government
• Countries in which a woman is head of state
• Criminal penalties or civil remedies exist for sexual harassment in employment
• Days of paid maternity leave
• Dismissal of pregnant workers prohibited
• Distribution of women's political empowerment index
• Distribution of women's share in parliament
• Distribution of women's share in parliamentweighted by population
• Employment discrimination based on gender prohibited
• Exceptions to the legal age of marriage
• Female employment vs. public spending on family benefits
• Female employment-to-population ratioNational estimates
• Female employment-to-population ratioModeled estimates
• Female employment-to-population ratio, 2020 vs. 1980
• Female labor force by age
• Female labor force participation rate (15-64)
• Female labor force participation rate vs. GDP per capita
• Female labor force participation ratesOECD & Long
• Female labor force participation ratesOECD & Long
• Female labor force participation ratesILO
• Female labor force participation rates by family benefits public spending
• Female labor force participation rates by national per capita income
• Female-to-male ratio of time devoted to unpaid care work
• Gender discrimination in credit access prohibited
• Gender ratio for average years of schooling
• Gender wage gap vs. GDP per capitaBy continent
• Index of US maternal mortality and female labor force participation (FLFP)
• Labor force participation rates for women ages 15-24, 2020 vs. 1980
• Labor force participation, younger vs. older women
• Law mandates equal remuneration for females and males for work of equal value
• Legal age of marriage for girls
• Legislation addressing domestic violence specifically
• Legislation establishes clear criminal penalties for domestic violence
• Legislation on sexual harassment in employment
• Legislation that specifically addresses sexual harassment
• Male and female surviving spouses have equal rights to inherit assets
• Male vs. female informal employment as share of total employment
• Married couples jointly share legal responsibility for financially maintaining the family’s expenses
• Married women are required by law to obey their husbands
• Married women can legally confer citizenship to their children in the same way as married men
• Married women can legally confer their citizenship to a non-national spouse in the same way as married men
• Maternal mortality ratioWith SDG Target
• Maternal mortality vs. female labor force participation, United States
• Men and married women have equal ownership rights to property
• Paid leave is available to fathers
• Paid leave of at least 14 weeks available to mothers
• Paid parental leave
• Penalties for authorizing or entering into child or early marriage
• Pension benefits account for periods of absence due to childcare
• People living in countries in which a woman is government's chief executive
• People living in countries in which a woman is head of government
• People living in countries in which a woman is head of state
• Presence of a specialized court or procedure for cases of domestic violence
• Prevalence of female genital mutilation
• Proportion of female employees by economic sector
• Proportion of labor force who are women
• Proportion of women participating in the labor force
• Ratio of female to male labor force participation ratesLine chart
• Representation of women in the lower chamber of parliament
• Representation of women in the upper chamber of parliament
• Retirement age with full pension benefits same for women and men
• Share of day women spend on unpaid domestic and care work
• Share of employed women working in agriculture vs. GDP per capita
• Share of firms with a female top manager
• Share of male vs. female employment in agriculture
• Share of male vs. female employment in industry
• Share of male vs. female employment in services
• Share of population subjected to sexual violence, male vs. female
• Share of senior and middle management positions filled by women
• Share of the population subjected to physical violence, male vs. female
• Share of women in local government
• Share of women in ministerial positions
• Share of women in parliamentIPU
• Share of women in parliamentV-Dem
• Share of women that are expected to die from pregnancy-related causes
• Share of women using modern contraceptive methods
• Share of women who believe a husband is justified in beating his wife
• Share of women who experienced violence by an intimate partner
• Share of women who experienced violence by an intimate partnerIHME
• Share of women who experienced violence from an intimate partnerUnited Nations
• Share of women who make their own informed health care decisions
• Share of women who report having been victims of forced sex as children
• Share of women who were married by age 15
• Share of women who were married by age 18
• Share of young women who experienced sexual violence as children
• Share who agree with the statement 'when jobs are scarce, men should have more right to a job than women'
• Sons and daughters have equal rights to inherit assets from their parents
• Spouses have equal legal administrative authority over assets during marriage
• Unadjusted gender gap in median earnings
• Unemployment rate, women
• Unemployment rate, women vs. men
• Unmarried women can legally confer citizenship to their children in the same way as married men
• Unmet need for contraception among married women of reproductive age
• Urban population vs. female labor force participation rate
• Weekly working hours
• What percentage of the US public approves of working wives?
• Woman is government's chief executive
• Woman is head of government
• Woman is head of state
• Women and men's testimony carries the same evidentiary weight in court
• Women can apply for a passport in the same way as men
• Women can be head of household in the same way as men
• Women can choose where to live in the same way as men
• Women can obtain a judgment of divorce in the same way as men
• Women can obtain a national identity card in the same way as married men
• Women can open a bank account in the same way as men
• Women can sign a contract in the same way as men
• Women can take the same jobs as men
• Women can travel outside the country in the same way as men
• Women can travel outside their home in the same way as men
• Women can work at night in the same way as men
• Women can work in a job deemed dangerous in the same way as men
• Women can work in an industrial job in the same way as men
• Women in informal employment as share of female employment
• Women participating in decisionmaking vs. children per woman
• Women who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care
• Women's civil liberties index
• Women's civil liberties indexweighted by population
• Women's civil society participation index
• Women's civil society participation indexweighted by population
• Women's political empowerment index
• Women's political empowerment indexweighted by population
• Women's political empowerment index vs. electoral democracy index
• Women's political participation index
• Women's political participation indexweighted by population
• Women's universal right to voteLexical Index
• Women, Business and the Law Index