From Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith's lecture notes. Unemployment Rates The figure below examines world and regional unemployment rates by sex for 2006. Globally women were more likely to be unemployed compared with men. Female unemployment in 2006 was 6.6 percent compared to 6.1 percent for men. Furthermore, the 2006 female unemployment rate increased from 6.3 percent in 1996. According to the ILO (2007) there were a total of 81.8 million women who were willing to work and actively looking for work without a job; up 22.7 percent from 10 years earlier. World and Regional Unemployment Rates by Sex, 2006. Source: ILO (2007) Further disparity exists when comparing female youth unemployment – those aged 15-24 years. Roughly 35.6 million young women were seeking employment in 2006. And while noting that youth unemployment is most times higher than adult unemployment rates, we see from the figure below that female youth unemployment rates are far higher than male youth in five of the regions considered – Central and Eastern Europe (non-EU and CIS), South East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and Middle East and North Africa. read more ...
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From Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith's lecture notes. Unemployment Rates The figure below examines world and regional unemployment rates by sex for 2006. Globally women were more likely to be unemployed compared with men. Female unemployment in 2006 was 6.6 percent compared to 6.1 percent for men. Furthermore, the 2006 female unemployment rate increased from 6.3 percent in 1996. According to the ILO (2007) there were a total of 81.8 million women who were willing to work and actively looking for work without a job; up 22.7 percent from 10 years earlier. World and Regional Unemployment Rates by Sex, 2006. Source: ILO (2007) Further disparity exists when comparing female youth unemployment – those aged 15-24 years. Roughly 35.6 million young women were seeking employment in 2006. And while noting that youth unemployment is most times higher than adult unemployment rates, we see from the figure below that female youth unemployment rates are far higher than male youth in five of the regions considered – Central and Eastern Europe (non-EU and CIS), South East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and Middle East and North Africa. read more ...