Armenia has highest percentage of women in workforce

Armenia is the country in the world that has the most women in the workforce, where 52.76#37; of the workforce is female, according to a study by US-based experience management company Qualtrics.br /

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YEREVAN, December 1. /ARKA/. Armenia is the country in the world that has the most women in the workforce, where 52.76% of the workforce is female, according to a study by US-based experience management company Qualtrics.br

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'Even though women are the majority in the workforce, Armenia still has anbsp;long way to gonbsp;to close the gender wage gap, as the country ranks 89th out of 146 countries on the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index,' the study says.

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Armenia is one of just ten countries where more than half of the workforce are women. Turkmenistan is second with 52.61% and Burundi is third with 51.96%. The least number of women in the workforce are in Qatar (16.07%), Iraq (14.4%) and Yemen (8.07%).

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A total of 180 countries are included in the ranking. -0-

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