Choose a country

Here's what women and men think in

Women should work paid jobs

Women should do both

Women should care for family

Here's the actual employment rate for women in

Working full time

55%

Working part time

55%

Looking for work

55%

Not looking for work

55%

The data used in the top section of this chart comes from the 2017 ILO-Gallup Report: Towards a Better Future for Women and Work: Voices of Women and Men.

The data from the bottom section of the chart was taken from ILOSTAT as well as the Women at Work Trends 2016 Report. The figures represented there are merely indicative of global women's employment trends.