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  • Are non-pregnant and non-nursing women allowed to take the same jobs as men?
  • Average daily time spent by women on domestic work (paid and unpaid)
  • Average usual weekly hours worked, women 15 years and older
  • Change in children per woman and female labor force participation
  • Female employment vs. public spending on family benefits
  • Female employment-to-population ratio
  • Female employment-to-population ratio
  • Female employment-to-population ratio, 2020 vs 1980
  • Female labor force by age
  • Female labor force participation rate (15-64)
  • Female labor force participation rate vs. GDP per capita
  • Female labor force participation rates
  • Female labor force participation rates by family benefits public spending
  • Female labor force participation rates by national per capita income
  • Female-to-male ratio of time devoted to unpaid care work
  • Gender wage gap vs GDP per capita
  • Index of US maternal mortality and female labor force participation (FLFP)
  • Labor force participation rates for women ages 15-24, 2020 vs 1980
  • Labor force participation, younger vs older women
  • Long-run perspective on female labor force participation rates
  • Male vs female informal employment as share of total employment
  • Maternal mortality vs. female labor force participation, United States
  • Proportion of female employees by economic sector
  • Proportion of labor force who are women
  • Proportion of women participating in the labor force
  • Ratio of female to male labor force participation rates
  • Share of employed women working in agriculture vs. GDP per capita
  • Share of male vs female employment in agriculture
  • Share of male vs female employment in industry
  • Share of male vs female employment in services
  • Share who agree with the statement 'when jobs are scarce, men should have more right to a job than women'
  • Unemployment rate, women
  • Unemployment rate, women vs men
  • Weekly working hours
  • What percentage of the US public approves of working wives?
  • Women in informal employment as share of female employment

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