copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2021-04-07): In 2019, 57.4 percent of all women participated in the labor force. This was up from 57.1 percent who participated in 2018, but 2.6 percentage points below the peak of 60.0 percent in 1999. By comparison, the labor force participation rate for men was 69.2 percent in 2019, little changed from the previous year and 17.4 percentage points below its peak of 86.6 percent in 1948. The rapid rise in women’s labor force participation was a major development in the labor market during the second half of the 20th century. Overall, women’s labor force participation increased dramatically from the 1960s through the 1980s, before slowing in the 1990s. With the dawn of the 21st century, labor force participation among women began a gradual decline, until the participation rate hit a recent low in 2015 of 56.7 percent. [...] Labor force participation varies by marital status and differs between women and men. Never-married women had the highest participation rate of all women, at 65.0 percent in 2019. Separated and divorced women were more likely to participate in the labor force (63.7 percent and 60.8 percent, respectively) than married women (58.6 percent). By contrast, married men were more likely to participate in the labor force (73.0 percent) than separated men (70.1 percent), never-married men (68.1 percent), and divorced men (64.7 percent). Labor force participation rates for widowed women and men, who tend to be older, were 19.8 percent and 24.2 percent, respectively. (See table 4.)
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2024-08-07): Since the Industrial Revolution, participation of women in the workforce outside the home has increased in industrialized nations, with particularly large growth seen in the 20th century. Largely seen as a boon for industrial society, women in the workforce contribute to a higher national economic output as measure in GDP as well as decreasing labor costs by increasing the labor supply in a society. [...] History [edit]U-shaped curve [edit]Claudia Goldin described women's participation rate in the workforce as a U-shaped curve. One that as a country develops, women's participation rate in the workforce starts high, declines, and then rises again. Its decline starts from a move from production in the household, family farm, or small business to a wider market. A strong social stigma of women working in paid manual labor outside of the home, not only in male-dominated industries, but also female-dominated industries such as textiles. Such stigma includes that only a lazy man (or of low social status/income) who neglects his family would let his wife do manual labor. The participation rate of women falls as the income rises, which even includes an increase in income for women's labor. Participation begins to rise once women's education improves and the value of women's time increases relative to the price of goods.[94] [...] Women's participation in different occupations [edit]Below is a sample of encyclopedia articles that detail women's historical involvement in various occupations.
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2015-03-04): - Among all states, Alaska has the highest rate of women’s labor force participation; 68.3 percent of women aged 16 and older work. Women in the Midwest have the strongest labor force participation rates overall: Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin all rank in the top ten. Other top ten jurisdictions include the District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Wyoming (Table 2.1). [...] Among the largest racial and ethnic groups, black women aged 16 and older had the highest national workforce participation rate in 2014 at 59.2 percent. White women had the second highest labor force participation rate at 56.7 percent, followed by Hispanic women (56.0 percent) and Asian women (55.8). Data are not available for Native American women (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 2015c). Among the detailed racial and ethnic groups shown in Table B2.3, Bolivian and Peruvian women have the highest labor force participation rates among Hispanic women at 70.1 and 66.0 percent, respectively, and Cuban women have the lowest rate at 55.9 percent (Table B2.3). Filipino and Laotian women have the highest workforce participation rates among Asian/Pacific Islander women (68.2 and 64.8 percent), and Pakistani and Bangladeshi women have the lowest rates (41.8 and 44.3 percent). Among Native American women, the Chippewa and the Pueblo have the highest workforce participation rates at 59.4 percent and 59.0 percent, respectively, and the Navajo and the Cherokee have the lowest rates (52.2 and 53.9 percent; Table B2.3).
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2024-09-17): A segmented bar chart shows the percentage of men and women in various corporate roles. At the entry level, 48% of employees are women, including 28% White women and 19% women of color, while White men represent 33%. At the manager level, 39% of employees are women, including 27% White women and 13% women of color, while White men represent 41%. At the senior vice president level, 28% are women, while 58% are White men. At the C-suite, 29% of employees are women, including 22% White women and 7% women of color, while White men represent 56%. The data indicate a trend of declining representation of women in more senior roles, regardless of race and ethnicity. [...] Declining practices include gender diversity (88% in 2017 to 78% in 2024), racial diversity (76% to 69%), managers encourage respectful and inclusive behavior on your team (97% to 95%), flexible work hours (85% to 77%), career development programs tailored to women (55% to 54%), formal sponsorship programs tailored to women (31% to 16%), and formal mentorship programs tailored to women (45% to 37%).
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2017-04-04): Over the past 70 years, womenâs participation in labor force activities has greatly expanded. Immediately following World War II, less than one-third of women were in the labor force. However, women soon began to participate in greater numbers, and their labor force participation rose rapidly from the 1960s through the 1980s before slowing in the 1990s. Women reached the peak of their labor force participation in 1999, with a rate of 60.0 percent. Since then, labor force participation among women has declined, to 56.7 percent in 2015. In addition, a large share of women work full time and year-round. Over time, women have increasingly attained higher levels of education: among women ages 25 to 64 who are in the labor force, the proportion with a college degree more than tripled from 1970 to 2015, increasing from 11 percent to 41 percent. Womenâs earnings as a proportion of menâs earnings also have grown over time. In 1979, women working full time earned 62 percent of what men earned; in 2015, womenâs earnings were 81 percent of menâs. [...] Womenâs labor force participation was 56.7 percent in 2015, down from 57.0 percent in 2014. Menâs labor force participation, which always has been much higher than that for women, was little changed at 69.1 percent in 2015. (See table 2.)
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2022-03-21): The rapid rise in women’s labor force participation was a major development in the labor market during the second half of the 20th century. Overall, women’s labor force participation increased dramatically from the 1960s through the 1980s, before slowing in the 1990s and early 2000s. Labor force participation among women then began a decline that accelerated in the wake of the December 2007–June 2009 recession, hitting a prepandemic low in 2015 at 56.7 percent. The rate then rose to 57.4 percent in 2019, before the pandemic affected the labor market. [...] Women’s labor force participation rate was 56.2 percent in 2020, 1.2 percentage points lower than the rate in 2019. Men’s labor force participation rate, which always has been much higher than that for women, also decreased in 2020; the rate for men was down by 1.5 percentage points to 67.7 percent. These declines in labor force participation reflect the impact of the pandemic on the labor market. (See table 2.)
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2023-01-01): - Female labor force participation rate vs. GDP per capita - Female labor force participation ratesILO - Female labor force participation rates by family benefits public spending - Female labor force participation rates by national per capita income - Female-to-male ratio of time devoted to unpaid care work - Fertility rate versus female labor force participation - Gender discrimination in credit access prohibited - Gender gap in primary, secondary and tertiary education - Gender of the chief executive - Gender of the head of government - Gender of the head of state - Gender wage gap vs. GDP per capitaBy continent - Index of US maternal mortality and female labor force participation (FLFP)
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2021-03-10): The new data was presented ahead of the Commission of the Status of Women, the largest UN gathering on gender equality, which this year has as its priority theme, "Women’s full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls". It also comes in the run-up to the Generation Equality Forum that will deliver multi-stakeholder, game-changing Action Coalitions on six topics including leadership and feminist movements. [...] Namibia made the biggest leap forward in Sub-Saharan Africa, increasing its overall share of women ministers from 15 per cent to 39 per cent. Rwanda still leads the region, maintaining the largest share of women ministers at 54.8 per cent as well as topping the global charts again in the share of women parliamentarians. [...] In the Pacific region, Kiribati gained one woman minister, and its parliament elected a woman Speaker for the first time. New Zealand maintains the largest share of women ministers at 40 per cent, increasing by 10 per cent compared to the previous year.
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2019-03-27): Women held a little more than one in five legislative seats worldwide in 2017, double their share in 1995. In developed countries, women had closer to one in three seats. Only two countries had majority-female legislatures in 2017: Rwanda and Bolivia. [...] The share of women participating in the workforce globally has fallen over the past few decades, from a little over 51 percent in 1995 to less than 49 percent in 2015. But an even larger drop in male labor-force participation over that same period means the gap has narrowed somewhat. Besides wealthier Scandinavian countries, those closest to parity were almost all in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2016-03-16): Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told journalists recently that Australia was seeing the highest ever female workforce participation rate and the largest number of women ever in the workforce. [...] The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Labour Force Australia publication indeed show that women’s labour force participation rate was at its highest ever in the last quarter of last year. [...] In February 1978, women’s participation was 43.4%. It reached 59.4% in December 2015, up from 59.3% in October of that year (using the trend data, not seasonally adjusted). The January and Feburary 2016 data have the figure holding at 59.4%..
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2017-11-21): In 2016-17, the labour force participation rate of people aged 20-74 years was 66% for women and 78% for men. While young women aged 15-19 were slightly more likely than young men the same age to be working or looking for work, proportions of men participating in the labour force outstripped those for women in every age group from 20 years and over. In the decade between 2006-07 and 2016-17, the participation rate for women aged 60-64 increased from 34% to 50%, an increase of 16%: the highest increase in all age groups for both men and women over this time (see Figure 1 below, and Table 1.1 via the Downloads tab for more detail). [...] Home ownership rates for men and women have dropped slightly since 2007-08. In 2015-16, 56% of men and 60% of women owned or were buying their homes, a drop of 2.8 and 2.3 percentage points respectively from 2007-08 (see Table 2.14).
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2018-03-20): As has been the case for more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, women are significantly more likely than men to associate with the Democratic Party. While the gender gap has changed little in recent years, it is as wide as it has been at any point during this period: Among registered voters, 56% of women affiliate with or lean toward the Democratic Party, compared with 44% of men. From 2010 through 2015, about half of women (51%-52%) identified with or leaned toward the Democratic Party. But the share of women who identify with or lean to the Democratic Party has risen in recent years, to 54% in 2016 and 56% in 2017. The partisan breakdown of men is relatively unchanged over this period. The Democratic gains among women have not come from increased affiliation with the party. Overall, the proportion of women voters who identify with (rather than lean toward) the Democratic Party has remained relatively constant for the past 25 years (in 1994, 37% of women said they identified with the Democratic Party, compared with 39% in 2017).
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2024-01-01): - 56% of UAE government university graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are women. [...] Women in the UAE participate actively in the private sector in various roles. They have equal rights to economic resources, including guaranteed equal pay, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws. [...] Women’s participation is particularly strong in the public sector. In fact, women hold two-thirds of public sector jobs in the UAE, with 30% in leadership roles and 15% in technical and academic roles. As the only country in the MENA region that has achieved parity at the parliamentary level, the UAE is ranked 40th globally for advancing women’s political empowerment, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2024.
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2018-08-13): - After the 2008 elections in Rwanda, women made up 56 per cent of Parliament. The number jumped to 64 per cent after the 2013 elections. [...] There are also other barriers to sustaining women’s political participation, such as limited enforcement of gender equality laws, lack of campaign financing, lower levels of education and technical skills, as well as persistent gender stereotypes and patriarchal attitudes. [...] The road for women’s increased participation in politics in Rwanda was paved by the 2003 Constitution, which set aside a quota of 30 per cent women in all decision-making organs, including 24 of the 80 seats in the Lower House of Parliament. Those seats are elected by an innovative special electoral college composed of voters from local women’s councils and district councils. Besides the 24 reserved seats, women candidates won 26 other seats, of the 53 available, and the youth seat, for a total of 51 seats in Parliament (64 per cent). Women also make up 42 per cent of Cabinet members, 32 per cent of Senators, 50 per cent of judges, and 43.5 per cent of city and district council seats. But will Rwanda be able to sustain the progress?
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2022-10-18): Women’s representation has increased across the pipeline since 2016. However, women—especially women of color—remain significantly underrepresented in leadership (Exhibit 1). [...] Today, 44 percent of companies have three or more women in their C-suite, up from 29 percent of companies in 2015 (Exhibit 2). Adding even one woman can make a material difference given the critical role top executives play in shaping the business and culture of their company. Still, the overall representation of women in the C-suite is far from parity. About 1 in 5 C-suite executives is a woman—and only 1 in 25 C-suite executives is a woman of color. [...] Today, 87 percent of companies are highly committed to gender diversity, compared to 56 percent in 2012, when McKinsey & Company first conducted a similar study on the state of women at work. Since 2015, senior leader and manager commitment to gender diversity has also increased, and employee commitment—especially among men—has risen significantly (Exhibit 4).
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2020-10-11): Female enrolment accounted for 55% of the total increase in primary and secondary between 1995 and 2018, growing by 180 million [...] Northern Africa and Western Asia has seen rapid expansion of tertiary education participation, outpacing the global average in recent years. Yet country experiences vary. Tunisia had among the highest participation rates as recently as 2010 but has since stagnated at around 35%. Saudi Arabia’s enrolment rate more than doubled between 2009 and 2017, from 32% to 70%. In some countries in the region, such as Algeria, women have been the main beneficiaries of rapid increases in tertiary education enrolment. By contrast, Saudi Arabia, with some of the highest gender disparity levels (albeit at men’s expense), increased enrolment while achieving gender parity. Morocco, which in the early 1990s had one of the most gender-unequal tertiary enrolment ratios (30 women for every 100 men), reached parity in 2017. As recently as 2011, Morocco had the same low participation rate as Sudan (16%), but while the latter stagnated, Morocco more than doubled participation in seven years to 36% (Figure 7).
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2021-04-29): Non-Hispanic Asian registration saw a large increase as well: 64%, compared to 56% in 2016. The 2020 election also featured higher turnout rates for: [...] In 2020, 68% of women eligible to vote reported voting — higher than the 65% turnout for men. In the 2016 election, 63% of women and 59% of men reported voting.
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2024-03-18): Female labor force participation is highest in some of the poorest and richest countries in the world. And it is lowest in countries with average national incomes somewhere in between. In other words: in a cross-section, the relationship between female participation rates and GDP per capita follows a U-shape. This is shown in the scatter plot here. [...] As we can see, the trends are consistent with those for labor force participation: In the period 1980-2016, the majority of countries saw an increase in the share of women who are employed. This is what we would expect – it means that by and large, the participation of women in the labor market was driven by employment, rather than unemployment. [...] While the years after World War II saw a rise in women’s labor force participation across every OECD country, growth in participation began at different points in time and proceeded at different rates in each country. In 2016, for example, Sweden’s female labor force participation rate was 70%, while it was only 56% in Germany and 40% in Italy. Researchers comparing broad policy configurations argue that the different types of welfare states that emerged in rich countries after World War II have contributed to these differences.20
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2024-07-16): Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life 5.5.1 [...] Target 5.5: Progress in women’s political participation remains slow. As of January 1, 2024, women held 26.9% of seats in national parliaments worldwide, marking a modest increase of 4.6 percentage points since 2015 (22.3%). In local governments, the participation was higher at 35.5% as of 1 January 2023. While global employment sees nearly 40% representation from women, they only held 27.5% of management positions in 2022, a notable decrease from 28.5% in 2021.
Claim: Highest ever participation of women in 2016-17 at 56% (Govt. of India, 2018-05-26)
Evidence (2024-07-23): The overall coverage rate (the share of eligible people who receive WIC benefits) generally declined from 55 percent in 2016 to 50 percent in 2020. The relative order of coverage rates by participant category has remained consistent from 2016 to 2020. Across all years, coverage rates were highest for infants and postpartum non-breastfeeding women. Coverage rates for children (with all children aged 1 through 4 considered as a group) were consistently lowest. [...] Coverage rates have generally declined between 2016 to 2020 for all racial and ethnic groups except for non-Hispanic people who identify as two or more races or a race other than Black only or White only. The coverage rate for this group declined from 61 percent in 2016 to 54 percent in 2017 before increasing to 60 percent in 2018 then steadily declining to 56 percent in 2020. For Hispanic/Latino people, the coverage rate declined from 72 percent in 2016 to 64 percent in 2020. For Black-only non-Hispanic people, the coverage rate declined from 53 percent in 2016 to 50 percent in 2020. For White-only non-Hispanic people, the coverage rate declined from 41 percent in 2016 to 38 percent in 2020.
Claim: Pictures of a Hindu woman named Ankita Vijay who was brutally assaulted by her Muslim boyfriend Abdul (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-04-17)
Evidence (2023-04-17): The woman with injuries and bruises on her body in these pictures is Malayalam actress Anicka Vikhraman. Anicka Vikhraman shared these pictures on her Facebook handle accusing her ex-boyfriend Anoop Pillai of allegedly abusing and assaulting her. The injured girl’s name is not Ankita Vijay and there is no communal angle in the incident. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
Claim: Pictures of a Hindu woman named Ankita Vijay who was brutally assaulted by her Muslim boyfriend Abdul (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-04-17)
Evidence (2022-08-30): A major reason for Ankita's death sparking protests and making headlines across the country was that the victim and alleged perpetrator belonged to different religions. [...] Ankita's death has sparked protests by Hindu right-wing organisations who have alleged that Shahrukh, a Muslim, wanted to commit "love jihad" by converting the victim, a Hindu, to his religion. [...] Amber Lakra, police superintendent of Dumka city, where both Ankita and Shahrukh lived, told BBC Hindi that the crime was not one of religion. He added that Shahrukh had been calling Ankita on the phone for the past few days and harassing her.