Proportion of labor force who are women, 2021
Female labor force as a percentage of total labor force. Labor force comprises people ages 15 and older who are economically active.
1990
2021
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- 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
- 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 ratesILO
- Female labor force participation rates1980 vs. 2020
- 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 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
- Male vs. female informal employment as share of total employment
- Maternal mortality vs. female labor force participation, United States
- Proportion of female employees by economic sector
- Proportion of women participating in the labor force
- Ratio of female to male labor force participation ratesLine chart
- Share of day women spend on unpaid domestic and care work
- Share of employed women working in agriculture vs. GDP per capita
- 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 who agree with the statement 'when jobs are scarce, men should have more right to a job than women'
- Unemployment rate, women
- Unemployment rate, women vs. men
- Urban population vs. female labor force participation rate
- Weekly working hours
- What percentage of the US public approves of working wives?
- Women can take the same jobs as men
- Women in informal employment as share of female employment