Women’s deficit in the “good jobs” market is biggest in South Asia
In every region of the world, men surpass women when it comes to having a “good job” — that is, full-time work for an employer, or what Gallup refers to as the Payroll to Population (P2P) employment rate. Worldwide, the P2P employment rate for men is 34%; it is 18% for women.
Across all regions, women’s deficit in the good jobs market is biggest in South Asia, where their P2P rate lags men’s by 26 percentage points. The good jobs gender gap that Gallup finds in South Asia aligns with recent data from the International Labour Organization (ILO). A 2012 ILO report on women’s employment in the aftermath of the global economic crisis finds that South Asia’s “already massive gender gap in the employment-to-population ratio” has increased. Further, the ILO says that the increase was accompanied by a “fall of 3 million female jobs, caused both by weakening female-dominated sectors like garments and by demographic change.”
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via Globally, Men Twice as Likely as Women to Have a Good Job.
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