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Yemen's Excluded Women
Only 4.91% of Yemeni women are in the labor force — the lowest in the world. In a crowd of 2,000 women, just 98 are working. Economic necessity, cultural restrictions, and ongoing conflict all play a role.
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Yemen has one of the lowest female labor participation rates in the world — under 6%. In a crowd of 2,000 working-age Yemeni women, fewer than 120 are in the formal economy. The gap between Yemen and Iceland in this crowd is not a gap between countries — it's a gap between two different ideas of what a woman's life is allowed to be.
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- Intl. OrgWorld Bank Gender Data Portal - Female Labor Participation2024
- Intl. OrgILO - Yemen Labor Force2023
- ResearchWorld Economic Forum - Global Gender Gap Report2023