WORLD African Workplace Gender Discrimination Laws 2023

Africa, 2000 - 2023

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afr-world-wawgdl-2023-v1

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Employer responsibility to prevent maternal status discrimination (empl_resp_matfam)

Data file: pgdw-2000-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 1154

Invalid: 35

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 88

loc_end_pos: 88

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	No explicit prohibition of maternal status discrimination at	679	58.8%
2	No explicit requirements	392	34%
4	General requirement, but no specific measures	19	1.6%
5	Employers required to take one or more of the specific measu	64	5.5%
Sysmiss		35

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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