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Rabat – Over half of male participants (51%) in a recent survey by Sunergia, a Moroccan market research company, said they do not endorse women’s right to equal access to the labor market.
Based on answers from more than 1000 participants, Sunergia established that on average 66% of Moroccans endorse women’s right to work.
The survey also found that rather unsurprisingly, women are more likely to endorse women’s right to access the job market, with 81% of surveyed female participants saying women should have an equal right to hold jobs.
Older adults aged between 55-64 years old were on average the most likely group to say that women have an equal right to access the job market, Sunergia reported. The younger generation came second, with 68% of participants aged between 18 and 24 saying they believe women should have an equal right to access the job market.
Sunergia’s survey further established that the geographical distribution of participants is a determining factor in their opinion on the issue. 71% of urban respondents said they are pro-women’s right to work, while only58% of rural respondents spoke in favor of women’s right to work.
Despite Morocco’s recent efforts to boost gender inclusion in the job market, women remain under-represented and more likely than their male counterparts to suffer from unemployment.
According to some estimates, unemployment in rural areas for women could be as high as 50%, against 35% for men.
In April last year, a blog post on the World Bank’s website reported that Morocco’s female labor market participation is among the lowest worldwide, even lower than it was two decades ago.
Morocco narrowly escaped the bottom in the World Bank’s ranking for female labor market participation, coming 180th out of 189 countries.
The alarming report noted that Morocco’s female labor participation has been consistently dropping over the past few years.
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