Good database for statistics about women in labor.

This post will be the first of a two part series on gender inequality in the United States. Gender inequality is defined as the disparity in status, power and prestige between people who identify as women and men. Today I will look at how gender inequality still exists in the United States, despite our frequent unwillingness to acknowledge it.

Gender equality is guaranteed in the Cambodian Constitution which prohibits all forms of discrimination against women (Article 45). Both men and women should have equal opportunity to exercise their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

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