Female Employment in Selected Countries

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Last updated: Monday June 28th, 2021

This chart shows the number of women who are in the workforce as a percentage of the number of men in the workforce.

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Year	Sweden	United States	Japan	Iran
1976	72.6681086	61.0322571	56.4039421	16.1375655
1986	93.9687376	72.4770603	62.4678619	11.0466554
1991	91.7272692	75.7255926	65.3350538	12.4170737
1996	87.6948953	79.0883661	64.3500669	14.2322098
2005	87.5856957	80.8237842	66.030013	25.9414789
2007	88.0235953	81.0024589	66.3474706	24.2347654
2008	87.6961389	81.5215952	66.4835158	21.6702983
2009	88.2204392	82.2654637	67.3611111	22.7513985
2010	90.8364958	82.3545921	67.7374316	22.2561422
2013	92.4983169	82.0450256	69.3617043	19.6825391
2014	92.4795899	82.3146973	69.8863632	19.0552564
2015	93.3763264	82.0854421	70.5547601	20.8099146
2016	93.5921492	82.092784	71.448861	23.692601
2017	93.4397868	82.5828886	72.4822673	24.8713548
2018	93.8862326	82.6647347	73.7359582	24.8089439

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Nov 13, 2019

What's crazy is that the birth rate in Iran is now 1.66, which is even lower than the United States. Which means that there are a lot of women who are sitting at home with little to do. If I had to guess, I would expect female employment in Iran to increase a lot in the coming decades.

Level 32

Nov 13, 2019

Yea

Level 75

Nov 13, 2019

Apparently whatever Abe is doing over there is working.

Level 41

Feb 26, 2021

Women: We want jobs!

Iran: Maybe I won't do that.