Women still face discrimination over jobs, says labor report
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Khadija Ryadi, the new president of the Moroccan Association of Human Rights, poses for a picture at her office in Rabat. The leading rights group in male-dominated Morocco announced this week that it had chosen its first woman president. Former trade unionist Ryadi, 47, is one of a growing number of career women around the world, but despite their swelling ranks, the UN's latest International Labor Office report warns that women still face serious discrimination at work.AFP |
Despite the growing number of successful career women and female labor force participation rates rising to 56.6 percent, women are still a distinct minority in many prestigious jobs and consistently earn less than their male counterparts.
Progress in integrating women into workforces has been uneven, with North America at 71.1 percent, 62 percent for the European Union, East Asia and the Pacific on 61.2 percent, and the Middle East and North Africa on 32 percent.
