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Female labor force participation

There are sizable variations in levels and trends of women’s labor force participation across world regions.
Measuring and Understanding Unpaid Care and Domestic Work- Household Care Survey Toolkit (OXFAM 2020, .pdf 6 MB)

Measuring and Understanding Unpaid Care and Domestic Work- Household Care Survey Toolkit (OXFAM 2020, .pdf 6 MB)

Explore this guide for measuring time use related to elderly and childcare and unpaid domestic work.
Progress towards gender equality under the law is being made, but legal barriers to women’s full economic participation remain

Progress towards gender equality under the law is being made, but legal barriers to women’s full economic participation remain

Discover which countries have implemented legislations in the past 50 years to improve equality in the workplace and ensure equal pay for women and men.

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The Gender Data Portal is more than just a database of sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics. Browse data tips and free training and courses on the Help page. Explore data availability, toolkits, and resources using the links to the right.

Filling Gender Data Gaps

Learn about which indicators and economies have the least data coverage and the World Bank’s efforts to fill data gaps in gender data measurement and collection.

More Gender Data Resources

Access guidelines to collecting sex-disaggregated data, lists of gender data portals and national statistical offices with gender sites, gender-related datasets, and visualizations among other resources.