>Less than half of working age women in Armenia participate in the labor force mainly due to caregiving responsibilities for children and disabled family members.
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>”Ensuring equal wages should be an essential part of a strategy that encourages women to enter the workforce. Today, women are paid only around 70% of the hourly wage paid to a man in the same occupation.”
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>The report also highlights that gender-based violence persists as a serious and underreported issue in Armenia. For example, 18% of ever partnered women aged 15-59 suffered from domestic violence in their lifetime.
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A lot of interesting findings:
>Less than half of working age women in Armenia participate in the labor force mainly due to caregiving responsibilities for children and disabled family members.
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>”Ensuring equal wages should be an essential part of a strategy that encourages women to enter the workforce. Today, women are paid only around 70% of the hourly wage paid to a man in the same occupation.”
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>The report also highlights that gender-based violence persists as a serious and underreported issue in Armenia. For example, 18% of ever partnered women aged 15-59 suffered from domestic violence in their lifetime.
The full report https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099100824162527996/p179877190d0c006a1a6831a1a576083a16
Unfortunately, many in Armenia are (deliberately) blind to how women are treated in Armenia.