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percentage of gross domestic product (GDP).3. Rights at work: Laws, policies and workingconditionsThe table aims to assess how supportive thelegal environment is for both women and men toengage in the labour market on an equal basisin an environment free from sexual harassment.It presents the following indicators: existence oflegislation mandating equal pay for work of equalvalue, prohibiting discrimination in hiring on thebasis of gender and prohibiting sexual harassment;length of paid maternity leave and proportionof earnings paid during such leave; duration ofpaternity leave and whether paid or not; and timespent on unpaid care and domestic work and paidby women and men.4. Right to work: Opportunities and constraintsThe table reflects the opportunities and constraintsto female and male engagement in the labourmarket. It presents two indicators (1991 and2013) for the female and male labour forceparticipation rate to assess progress; one indicatorfor the unemployment rate among the labourforce population aged 15 years and older andamong youth aged 15–24 years, who tend to bedisproportionately impacted by unemployment;and share of women in select occupations. Thetable also presents indicators on employment inthe non-agricultural informal sector by sex and ongender pay gaps to capture quality of work.5. The right to social securityThe table contains indicators on three componentsof social security: active contribution to a socialsecurity scheme while working; access to socialsecurity in old age and adequacy of benefitlevel relative to the international poverty line;and expenditure on social security and on healthservices. It presents indicators on the proportion offemales and males in the working age populationcontributing to a pension scheme; females andmales of statutory pension age receiving an oldage pension; non-contributory old age pensionas a percentage of $1.25 (PPP$) a day povertyline; public expenditure on social security as apercentage of GDP; public expenditure on health(percentage of GDP and per capita); households’out-of-pocket expenditure as a percentage oftotal health expenditure; and health personneldensity (number of physicians, and nurses andmidwives per 1,000 people).6. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms ofDiscrimination against Women (CEDAW)The Convention on the Elimination of All Formsof Discrimination against Women was adoptedin 1979 by the United Nations General Assemblyin its resolution A/RES/34/180. Ratification bymember states signals a commitment to fulfillingthe human rights of women and girls. The tablepresents current information on countries partyto CEDAW and whether a ratifying countryhas imposed reservations on key areas of theConvention.249