WORLD African Workplace Gender Discrimination Laws 2023

Africa, 2000 - 2023

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afr-world-wawgdl-2023-v1

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WORLD Policy Analysis Center

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Dec 06, 2024

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POD hiring: gender (hir_gender)

Data file: pgdw-2000-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 1154

Invalid: 35

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 46

loc_end_pos: 46

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	No prohibition	222	19.2%
2	General prohibition of discrimination in hiring or recruitme	0	0%
4	Broad prohibition of workplace discrimination based on gende	277	24%
5	Yes, gender-specific prohibition	655	56.8%
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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