Table 3.2 Gender structure of labour force

Representation of women in the Labour Force

Labour laws do not yet provide cover to the entire Pakistani labour force.

a From labour force surveys, household surveys, population censuses or labour related establishment surveys.

Previous Labour Force Surveys did not address this issue.

4 Employing more of the labour force, especially women working from home.

Pakistan Labour Force Survey 2001 2002 released in late 2003.

Integration into the European labour strategy would be yet another step towards increasing female participation in the labour force.

The ILO also helped the Ministry of Labour to strengthen its labour market information system and to create an employment task force.

The Female Labour Force Participation while still quite low, is increasing.

Workers without social protection now comprise the vast majority of the urban labour force.

(c) Organizing field testing of a revised labour force survey questionnaire in selected countries

He noted that the need for a labour force to pick cotton had prevented Uzbekistan from ratifying International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 182 on child labour.

As stated earlier, the participation of rates of women in the labour force are increasing.

Labour markets should also respond to the needs of older workers, who will become an important component of the labour force in years to come.

Owing to demographic pressure and women entering the labour force, the region has one of the highest rates of new entrants into the labour market.

Of all women aged 15 to 45 in the labour force, 18.2 are single mothers.

While the effects of the Act cannot be isolated, an analysis of women's participation in the labour force since 1996 indicates that there has been an increase in labour force participation and an improvement in workplace flexibility for women.

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

In April 2013, unemployment was at 8.2 (or 6.7 following the ILO definition) of the labour force.

Liberalization of the labour market would need to focus on the effect of the declining labour force, productivity, migration and the adaptability of older workers to the present working environment.

Bananas and other agriculture dominate Dominica's economy, and nearly one third of the labour force works in agriculture.

15.7 of women participants in the labour force are those who are engaged in home based earning activities.

The labour force consists of more than four million people, among whom women hold slightly more jobs than men.

The annual average Ontario labour force participation rate of 68.4 percent in 2003 was the highest level since 1991.

Unemployment on the continent is extremely high and underemployment is rampant, affecting 40 per cent of the labour force.

The proportion of women in the labour force was 48 (in 2002), and about 52 of women are among active population.

11.5 Previous national accounts of Vanuatu's labour force categorized unpaid work as uneconomical and not contributing to the economy of the nation.

In 2001, 44.6 per cent of indigenous women were participating in the labour force, an increase of 42.6 per cent in 1996.

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

The reason is that other financial resources are available (i.e. under municipal labour market policy and grants from the European Social Fund (ESF)) for the direct promotion of labour force participation and economic independence.

The economy continues to be bolstered by remittances of some 20 of the labour force that works abroad, mostly in Greece and Italy.

This is expected to increase the labour force participation of single parents and reduce the depth of low income among single parent families.

This indicates that OCCS recipients have strengthened their attachment to the labour force, which is one of the objectives of the NCB initiative.

The bulk of the world's labour force worked in the agricultural sector and three quarters of the working poor were in developing countries.

Youth constitute almost a third of the total population of the United Republic of Tanzania, and comprise 65 per cent of the labour force.

Such work was particularly helpful for women seeking to return to the labour force after an absence for maternity leave.

Work, care and income to define the promotion of women's economic independence through participation in the labour force as the essence of emancipation policy.

The argument for such redundancy for fired workers was a fear that privatization would lead to a large reduction of the labour force.

Concerning the women's labour force in fishery, it is noted that its percentage is still smaller than that of women employed in agriculture.

The total share of female participation in the labour force in 2004 was 52 per cent, with 73 per cent working in agriculture.

The total share of female participation in the labour force in 2004 was 47 per cent, with 53 per cent working in agriculture.

The labour force employed in agriculture, though significantly reduced in recent decades, still constitutes the largest part of the total active population of the country.

The total share of female participation in the labour force in 2000 was 48 per cent, of which 54 per cent were working in agriculture.

The total share of female participation in the labour force in 2000 was 49 per cent, of which 93 per cent were working in agriculture.