Registered unemployment rate among women, employment rate among women (as a part of total female population), economically active women rate, women's participation in executive authority, and ratio between men and women aged over 15 in literacy.

Ms. Yesildaglar (Turkey) acknowledged that the female employment rate in Turkey was unsatisfactory but stressed that the Government was doing everything possible to improve the situation.

The share of female employment in total employment is among the lowest in the world.

Employment rate and economic independence of women

The country's female literacy rate was 97 per cent.

The indigenous background of female prisoners was assessed as a factor in the overall female imprisonment rate.

The female illiteracy rate is a staggering 92 per cent.

Today the overall literacy rate in Albania is 98.7 the male literacy rate is 99.2 and female literacy rate is 98.3 .

An analysis of the female employment situation produces the following statistical tables

The highest employment rate is among university educated people.

The 2004 Human Development Report also contained no female employment indicators for Gabon.

Given the overall increase of 72 per cent in the total number of employees, this shows that there has been a significant increase in female employment in the formal sector between 1983 and 2000 and that it has grown at a greater rate than total employment growth.

The average rate of employment of Estonian population (15 64 years old) in 2003 was 62.6 , whereas the employment rate of men was 66.7 and that of women 58.8 .

At any rate, employment seems to have become decoupled from growth.

A significant factor among indigenous female prisoners is the high rate of recidivism.

In 2002, female child mortality rate under five years old was 31.4 o and male child mortality rate was 34.2 o.

Salaried employment of males corresponds, according to INE (1998), about 16 , and the female about 4 .

The employment rate for females between 15 and 64 years of age had increased from 40 per cent in 1994 to 56 per cent in 2004 the female unemployment rate was down to 3.6 per cent, and long term unemployment of more than one year stood at 0.8 per cent.

So the high share of government employment contributes to the region s low unemployment rate.

In 2008, India s female labor force participation rate averaged 35 , while low income countries averaged 58 .

A number of factors may be responsible for the relatively low female labour force participation rate.

Liberia is one of the world's poorest countries, with a formal employment rate of 15 .

The rate of infant mortality was 9,7 in male newborns, and 8,3 for every 1000 female newborns.

In 2003, maternal mortality rate was 85 100,000 child mortality rate under one year old was 21 o (40.2 o for male and 32.9 o for female).

The unemployment rate has been in decline since 2003, and the overall rate of employment is the highest since statistics were first compiled in 1995.

1.94 79 per cent employment rate of vocational training centres (VTCs) graduates will have been achieved.

Table 5 Employment rate for women ages 10 to 69, by place of residence and region

Government efforts to eliminate female illiteracy and to reduce the school dropout rate have had some notable successes.

However, female employment was not always visible, as most women performed unregistered, unrecorded work or had flexible patterns of work.

Even though the employment rate of men is higher than that of women, the unemployment rate for men is higher (10.2 ) than that of women (9.9 ).

Furthermore, both the employment (62.7 percent) and participation rates (67.6 percent) are at record levels as the economy nears its sustainable rate of output and employment growth.

Slower population growth and a demographically driven decline in the labor force participation rate will reduce employment growth.

As the growth rate is nearly 2 per cent annually, just imagine what the employment situation is today.

The men's rate is particularly higher among the IDF disability pension recipients and the employment disability pension recipients.

Against this background, government tax and spending policies, as well as labor market regulation, should be reformed to help boost female employment.

Comparing the drop out rates of female and male students at primary level in 1999 and 2001, the number of female drop outs rate was lower than that of male drop outs rate (in 1999 the ratio was 0.77 1.01 and in 2001 the ratio was 1.01 1.23).

From 1993 to 1998, the US created millions of jobs, which raised the employment rate by 5.4 percentage points.

Government employment is falling at the fastest rate since the 1940 s, and is now at its 2006 level.

In 2001 the employment rate for the labor force (71 of those 15 ) was 66 employed and 34 unemployed.

The low level of qualifications among women, which has led to a high female unemployment rate, following civil service staffing cutbacks.

Ms. Yesildaglar (Turkey) acknowledged that the current rate of female participation in the labour force, 26.6 per cent, was very low.

A target set under the Lisbon strategy consisted in attaining a 60 per cent employment rate among women by 2010.

It is a flat rate basic income support program for persons participating in pre employment programming or making a transition to self sufficiency by continuing some supports until individuals are established in employment.

If employment began rising at this rate in 2010, it would take until 2015 before it reached its pre recession level.

The bans are especially ironic, given that, according to UNESCO, Iran has the highest rate of female to male undergraduates in the world.