Agenda 2030's Sustainable Development Goals' Impact on Female Labor Force

Scientific Study from the year 2020 in the subject Economics - Job market economics, , language: English, abstract: The purpose of this study is to evaluate, and compare the performance made by low middle income, and up middle income countries regarding increasing female labor force participation, from 2015 to 2019. Data related to 43 low middle income, and 59 upp middle income were collected. Using paired sample t-test, repeated measures ANOVA and post hoc test, the findings reveals that low middle income countries made statistically significant progress regarding increasing female labor force participation from 2015 to 2019. However, the findings show also that upper middle income countries did not make statistically significant progress regarding increasing female labor force participation between 2015 to 2019. The conclusion is that some countries are implementing the agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development Goals. The study shows finally that the COVID-19 pandemic narrowed employment as there is no statisticaly significant difference between 2018 and 2019. The implementation of the agenda 2030 on SDGs is a world wide concerns. All contries should engage in gender equality,and no country should lag behind as the study demonstrated it for upp middle countries. A clear mechanism of evaluating the implementation of the Agenda 2030 shoud extend at all objectives to find deviation at take corrective measures.

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