Working women in Yemen earn less than working men (Figure 10).
In the survey, monthly earnings were collected using intervals.
Forty-three percent of working women, but only 14% of working
men, earn less than 20,000 riyals per month. Men are more than
three times as likely as women to earn 60,000 riyals or more per
month (16% and 5%, respectively.) If responses to each interval
in the questionnaire are coded to the midpoint of the response
category’s range, working women earn an average of 28,948 riyals
per month compared with 42,475 riyals earned by men. These
figures suggest that women earn 68% as much as men, a gender gap
of 32%. However, differences in hours worked and type of work
have not been taken into account. Young Yemeni women (under age
25) are more likely to be low earners (60% earn less than 20,000
riyals per month) than women of other ages. However, 7% of women
under age 25 and 6% of women age 25-34 earn 60,000 riyals or
more per month. Large proportions of the youngest (17%) and
oldest (15%) a