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In East and Southern Africa women are paid 19% less than men on average, to make up this difference women would need to work 5 hours extra every week. We need to reveal the gap to close the gap, and this is exactly what UN Women’s new report on ‘Why Women Earn Less’ intends to achieve.
The chart shows that around half of all women worldwide are in the labor force but that this differs across world regions: while most are slightly or cleary above the global average, the Middle East and North Africa as well as South Asia have much lower participation rates.
58.9. Wage and salaried workers, female (% of female employment) (modeled ILO estimate) from The World Bank: Data.
Why Is it a Top Career for Women in South Africa: There’s a high demand in South Africa for personal care aides right now, and this is a good career option for women who want to earn a good salary but don’t have a lot of job experience. Average Salary: R114,558 per year
positions. At each educational level, female wage employees are on average less well paid than their male counterparts, in almost all countries. A “factor-weighted” measure of the gender pay gap, which allows us to control for differences in the composition of male and female paid employment in terms of sector,
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SDG 5 considers inequality more broadly than simply in terms of the gender pay gap: its ambition is to achieve gender equality in the labour market (e.g. equal access to jobs and top decision-making roles), in education (e.g. achieving gender parity in education), in access to health and in an array of other target areas, with the aims of ...
