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When it comes to employment, there's more than the gender pay gap holding women back. In most countries around the world, some jobs are by law reserved for men only and forbidden for women.
For its 2018 edition, the World Bank publication Women, Business and the Law focused on legal restrictions on female employment and found that this 'gender employment gap' existed in 104 out of 189 economies around the globe.
- In 40% of the all economies examined, women are restricted from working in certain industries (including mining, construction and transportation).
- In 30%, they are not allowed to work in jobs that are deemed hazardous, arduous or 'morally inappropriate'.
- And in 15%, women are restricted from working the same night hours as men.
In absolute figures, this means that over 2.7 billion women are legally restricted from having the same employment choices as men.
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