60% The proportion of unpaid family workers globally who are women
Millennium
Development Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Target: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
Wage employment in most of Africa and in many parts of Asia and Latin America is concentrated in urban areas. Outside cities and towns, most employment is in agriculture, and mainly for family subsistence. Women in developing regions are more likely than men to work in agriculture, and as contributing but unpaid family workers. Worldwide, over 60 percent of unpaid family workers are women – meaning that women continue to lack access to job security and social protection.
Source: UN DESA, The Millennium Development Goals Report 2007, New York, June 2007.