Female Unemployment

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Afghan Women Harassed into Unemployment

By Shelly Kittleson
While global attention is fixed on the scheduled pullout of U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan in 2014, women here have a much more immediate concern: how will they survive another day at work?

Young Women Face Double Whammy in Pacific Islands

By Catherine Wilson
With youth populations growing faster than jobs in the Pacific Islands, young women, who are also confronting social pressures to conform to traditional gender roles, account for the highest rates of unemployment in most countries.