Work - Human Rights Facts

Worldwide, women's work in the home is not counted as work.
90% of the rural female labor force are called "housewives" and excluded from the formal definition of economic activity.
Women work-- on average and across the world-- more hours than men each week, sometimes as much as 35 hours more, but their work is often unpaid and unaccounted for.
Where women do the same work as men, they are paid 30 to 40 percent less than men.
There is no country in the world where women's wages are equal to those of men.
In the U.K., Italy, Germany, and France women are paid 75% of men's wages, whereas in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Australia women earn 90% of men's wages.
Women produce nearly 80% of the food on the planet, but receive less than 10% of agricultural assistance.
In most places in the world, work is segregated by sex. Women tend to be in clerical, sales and domestic services, and men in manufacturing and transport.
Women occupy only 2% of senior management positions in business.
Women's participation in managerial and administrative posts is around 33% in the developed world, l5% in Africa, and 13% in Asia and the Pacific. In Africa and Asia-Pacific these percentages, small as they are, reflect a doubling of numbers in the last twenty years.