Women in Belgium

Women in Belgium
General Statistics
Maternal mortality (per 100,000)8 (2010)
Women in parliament38.9% (2013)
Women over 25 with secondary education77.5% (2012)
Women in labour force61.7% (employment rate
OECD definition, 2019)[1]
Gender Inequality Index[2]
Value0.048 (2021)
Rank10th out of 191
Global Gender Gap Index[3]
Value0.793 (2022)
Rank14th out of 146
Map indicating the language areas and provinces of Belgium. Provinces are marked by the thinner black lines.
  Dutch-speaking
 
  French-speaking
  German-speaking
 
  Bilingual FR/NL
Community:   Region:
Flemish   Flanders
French and Flemish   Brussels
French   Wallonia
German-speaking   Wallonia

Women in Belgium are European women who live in or are from Belgium. Generation after generation, Belgian women are able to close the "occupational gender gap". In younger generations, this is due to the increasing availability of "part-time jobs in services" for women. In 1999, the average earnings of a Belgian woman was 91 percent of the salary of a Belgian man. When not doing part-time jobs, Belgian women still "do more of the domestic work", depending on the agreement between female and male partners.[4]

  1. ^ OECD. "LFS by sex and age - indicators". stats.oecd.org. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Human Development Report 2021/2022" (PDF). HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORTS. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Global Gender Gap Report 2022" (PDF). World Economic Forum. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  4. ^ De Lannoy, Jean and Ruben A. Lombaert. "Belgium". Advameg, Inc. Retrieved 26 October 2013.

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