WORLD African Workplace Gender Discrimination Laws 2023

Africa, 2000 - 2023

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Types of retaliation prohibited for reporting maternal status discrimination (ret_type_matfam)

Data file: pgdw-2000-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 1150

Invalid: 39

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 83

loc_end_pos: 83

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	No explicit prohibition of maternal status discrimination at	675	58.7%
2	No prohibition of retaliation	128	11.1%
3	Only dismissal	146	12.7%
4	Harassment or disciplinary action	59	5.1%
5	Any adverse action	142	12.3%
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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