WORLD African Workplace Gender Discrimination Laws 2023

Africa, 2000 - 2023

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afr-world-wawgdl-2023-v1

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POD promotions and/or demotions: maternal status (promdemo_matfam)

Data file: pgdw-2000-2023-v1

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Valid: 1154

Invalid: 35

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 58

loc_end_pos: 58

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	No prohibition	816	70.7%
2	General prohibition of discrimination in promotions and/or d	23	2%
4	Broad prohibition of workplace discrimination based on mater	44	3.8%
5	Yes, maternal status-specific prohibition	271	23.5%
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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