The female workforce exceeds the male (Mozambique)

In spite of the increasing abandonment of rural areas, only 32% of the population of Mozambique is urban and the vast majority of women and men with employment — 61.5%— are subsistence farmers.

Many first generation emigrant women regularly return to their village of origin to tend the crops needed to feed their family because they cannot find work in the city and have no money to buy food. Only 31% of the inhabitants live above the international poverty line.

The gender inequality index is 0.574, showing great differences in its three dimensions: bad for reproductive health (489 maternal deaths per 100,000 births and 140 adolescent mothers per 1,000 women aged 15-19), very bad for population with secondary education (2.8% of women and 8% of men) and with 7% more female workforce (82.5% as against 75.4% for men).