WORLD African Workplace Gender Discrimination Laws 2023

Africa, 2000 - 2023

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afr-world-wawgdl-2023-v1

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Types of retaliation prohibited for reporting gender discrimination (ret_type_gender)

Data file: pgdw-2000-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 1150

Invalid: 39

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 81

loc_end_pos: 81

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	No explicit prohibition of gender discrimination at work	107	9.3%
2	No prohibition of retaliation	477	41.5%
3	Only dismissal	234	20.3%
4	Harassment or disciplinary action	97	8.4%
5	Any adverse action	235	20.4%
Sysmiss		39

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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