Fact and Figures
- 74.8 percent of rural women in India are agricultural workers but only 9.3 percent own the land.
Source: The 2002 Indian National Sample Survey, Agriculture Census 2005/ 2006, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Government of India - More than half of the countries in the South Asian Region have less than 50 percent participation of women in the labour force. Pakistan has the least women labour force participation with only 22 percent. Women participation in the labour force.
Source: Progress of World’s Women: Access to Justice, 2011-12, UN Women - More than 80 percent of women in the region are also employed in vulnerable jobs, which lack the protection of labour laws.
Source: Progress of World’s Women: Access to Justice, 2011-12, UN Women - Limits on women’s participation in the workforce across the Asia-Pacific region cost the regional economy an estimated US$89 billion every year, Progress highlights.
Source: Progress of World’s Women: Access to Justice, 2011-12, UN Women - Women doing low paid domestic work (with few or no employment rights): Women account for nearly two-thirds of Sri Lanka’s one million international migrants, many of whom are employed in the Gulf States as domestic workers.
Source: Progress of World’s Women: Access to Justice, 2011-12, UN Women - Only 4 out of 9 South Asian Countries have equal inheritance laws between men and women for land and property. In Nepal, a tax exemption has been introduced to incentivise families to share property with their wives, daughters and sisters. As a result, between 2001 and 2009, women’s land ownership has increased threefold.
Source: Progress of World’s Women: Access to Justice, 2011-12, UN Women
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