Yemen: a profile of gender and development.

This document contains tables and charts that reveal gender differentials in Yemen in areas affecting socioeconomic development including legal and political rights fertility attitudes and actions health risks and resource access migration patterns education and economic activity. The first table indicates that Yemen had a smaller percentage of women holding seats in parliament than the Arab country or developing country average in 1993. The next set of tables illustrates 1) Yemens population by age sex and urban/rural residence in 1992 and 2) total fertility rates by residence and by education in 1991-92. The impact of gender issues on health is shown through charts displaying 1) life expectancy at birth by sex for 1990 (unlike the Arab developing and developed countries where life expectancy for females is 4-7 years longer life expectancy for males and females is the same in Yemen); 2) infant and under age five mortality rates in 1992; and 3) correlates of apparent gender bias in infant and child mortality rates in 1991-92 (treated for diarrhea treated for airborne respiratory infection and immunized). The impact of gender issues on educational status is uncovered by charts comparing 1) adult literacy rates in Yemen and other Arab countries in 1970 and 1990; 2) mean years of schooling by sex in Yemen and selected Arab countries for 1991; and 3) percent of Yemens population literate by age and sex for 1991-92. The presentation then offers a map of gender differences in labor migration patterns in Yemen and a final chart indicating the percentage of women in the total labor force in Yemen and selected Arab countries in 1991.