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4- Political and economic power
Downloads from the brochure:
Full chapter on political and economic power (pdf, 181 KB)
Table and graphs on political and economic power (xls, 77 KB) in English et Français
Highlights:
Women in parliament
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Did you know?
Women are outnumbered by men in all the world’s parliaments.
Women hold close to half the parliamentary seats in Rwanda and Sweden and about a third in the Nordic countries, in Cuba, Costa Rica and Argentina.
There is no reliable relationship between how rich a country is, and how many women are in parliament.
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Managerial and professional posts
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Did you know?
In all OECD countries for which data are available, higher percentages of men work as managers or directors compared to women.
On the other hand, a greater percentage of women who work do so in occupations for which a professional qualification is required than men. However, because more men work than women, this does not mean that there are more professional women than men.
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