Do Men Support Women To Join Workforce? New Study Finds More Women Part Of Work Force In Sub-Saharan Africa Than America

The findings of two new and separate worldwide survey and poll on the occasion of this year’s Women’s day casts new light on this year’s theme of gender equality in work.
While one poll by the Pew Research center suggests that women make almost half the workforce in more than 80 countries, another poll by Gallup in collaboration with International Labor Organization (ILO) found that millions of more women would like to join the workforce and surprisingly millions of men also support the same.
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Interestingly, although with women account for 46.8 percent of the labor force, the Pew Research report found the United States to be above the median female share of the workforce (45.4 percent), about 39 countries including several sub-Saharan African countries such as Zimbabwe, Malawi, the Gambia, Liberia and Tanzania outranked the United States. Women in the labor force comprise workers either with jobs or looking for work. However, the survey points out that many of quality of jobs for many of these women may is under question as they fall under the irregular, informal economy and have less stable incomes.