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Relative Economic Empower
- Status of Women in SMC s
Women per 100 men in occupational groups,
1990 census round
| Country | Seats held in Parliament (%women) | Administrator + Managers (%Women) | Professional + technical workers (%women) | Earned Income share (%women) | Women as % of Adult (15+Labour) | Professional technical | Administrator Manager | Clerical Related workers | Sales workers | Service workers | Agricultural & related Workers | Productions. Transfer. Workers | |
| 1997 | 1997 | 1997 | 1997 | 1980 | 1994 | ||||||||
| Bangladesh | 9.1 | 5.1 | 23.1 | 23 | 6 | 41(a) | 30 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 87 | 103 | 17 |
| Bhutan | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| India | 7.3 | 2.3 | 20.5 | 26 | 26 | 24 | 26(b) | 2(b) | 7(b) | 7 | 22(b) | 45(b) | 15(b) |
| Maldives | 6.3 | 14 | 34.6 | 35 | 22 | 22 | 53 | 16 | 48 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 33 |
| Nepal | 2.6** | 22.8* | 36.2 | 26.4* | 33 | 32 | 57 (c) | 30 (c) | 5 (c) | 23 (c) | 23 (c) | 65(b) | 27© |
| Pakistan | 3.4 | 3.4 | 20.1 | 21 | 10 | 13 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 22 | 9 |
| Sri Lanka | 5.3 | 16.9 | 24.5 | 34 | 27 | 27 | 82 | 33 | 69 | 25 | - | 43 | 46 |
Source : UN,
The World Women 1970-95 Trends and Statistics UNDP,
Human Development Report
,1995-97.
Notes :a= Data are for the results of 1990 round of census of the
latest available national labour force or house hold survey
as reported in the ILO.
b= Data refer to a year between 1980-84
c= Data refer to a year between 1970-79.
*=1992 ;**=1994
Report :SAARC Survey of Development and Cooperation 1998/99, RISNODC
,New Delhi ,1999.