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The refined economic participation rate for Jordanian women amounted to 14.2 percent last year, that is, one out of every 7 women was economically active in 2020, compared to one economically active man out of every 1.9 men in the age group of 15 years and above, according to a statement released on Wednesday by the Department of Statistics (DoS).
The refined economic participation rate for women is the number of economically active women aged 15 years and above divided by the number of women in the age group 15 years and above.
On the occasion of International Workers’ Day, which the world celebrates on the first of May of each year, DoS data showed that the number of workers covered by the Social Security Corporation witnessed a significant increase from 366,000 male and female workers in 2000 to about 1,345,188 male and female workers in 2019, while the average monthly wage increased from JD60 in the mid-seventies to JD211 in the mid-nineties, and JD524 in 2018.
The DoS said that despite the gains achieved by the Jordanian labor force, it still faces many challenges in the labor market, the most important of which is the competition for expatriate workers, whose numbers have greatly inflated, which deprived Jordanian workers from benefiting from job opportunities in various economic sectors, and kept unemployment levels almost constant.
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