This, together with a lack of childcare facilities, means that women are often forced to leave the labour market.
Far more women than men choose to take parental leave.
Only 65.8% of women with young children in the EU are working, compared with 89.1% of men. Introduction (Image credit: NASA) "Sexual dimorphism" is the scientific term for physical differences between males and females of a species.
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Promoting equal economic independence for women and men, closing the gender pay gap, advancing gender balance in decision making, ending gender based violence and promoting gender equality … Sex is a major factor influencing best performances and world records.
When compared to black men, black women earn 89.4%, and Hispanic women make 84.8% of what Hispanic men do. Media depictions of men and women as fundamentally "different" appear to perpetuate misconceptions - despite the lack of evidence. A stabilization of the gender gap in world records is observed after 1983, at a mean difference of 10.0% ± 2.94 between men and women for all events. The resulting "urban legends" of gender difference can affect men and women at work and at home, as parents and as partners.
While a record 143 countries guaranteed equality between men and women in their Constitutions by 2014, another 52 had not taken this step.