General Statistics | |
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Maternal mortality (per 100,000) | 63 (2010) |
Women in parliament | 26.5% (2014)[1] |
Women over 25 with secondary education | 22.0% (2010) |
Women in labour force | 16% (2014)[2] |
Gender Inequality Index[3] | |
Value | 0.577 (2019) |
Rank | 146th out of 162 |
Global Gender Gap Index[4] | |
Value | 0.535 (2021) |
Rank | 154th out of 156 |
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Women in society |
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The status of women in Iraq at the beginning of the 21st century is affected by many factors: wars (most recently the Iraq War), sectarian religious debates concerning Islamic law and Iraq's Constitution, cultural traditions, and modern secularism. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi women are widowed as a result of a series of wars and internal conflicts. Women's rights organizations struggle against harassment and intimidation, while they work to promote improvements to women's status in the law, in education, the workplace, and many other spheres of Iraqi life, and to curtail abusive practices such as honor killings and forced marriages.
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