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UN Report on Gender Gap in Labor Market
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- The report titled “World’s Women: Trends and Statistics” was released by the UN-DESA.
- According to this report, Gender equality across the world remains a far-fetched goal and no country has achieved it so far.
- The report provided a reality-check on the global status of women 25 years since the world adopted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995.
- The gender gap in the labour market has remained as it was since 1995.
- The largest gender gap in labour force participation was observed in the prime working age (25-54).
- In India, the ratio of female-to-male labour force participation rate was 29.80 in 2019 as against the desired ratio of 50 per cent.
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