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• Women's right to labor and equality of wage;
• Women should not be employed to do jobs that do not suit
their nature for protection and specificity considerations;
- The Law decides on granting a fully paid 14-week
delivery leave extendable to 16 weeks if more than one
birth was given. She also has the right during 18 months
from the date of delivery to enjoy no less than a total of
one hour work suspension during working hours of the day
for breast feeding, which are considered as paid working
hours.
- The Law obligates employers to provide well-equipped
places as child nurseries;
- No constraints are placed on women in benefiting from
credit facilities or with regard to procedures of issuing
license for running economic activity;
- Women enjoy all social privileges and guarantees set forth
in the Social Security Law no 13 for 1981ensuring social
protection for all Libyans, males and females, while at
work and on reaching the age of retirement;
As a result, the percentage of Libyan women participation in
economic activity according to the 1964 census incrementally
rose by (4%) and ten years later, by (6%), doubling to (11%) for
the 1984 census. It continued rising until it amounted to one
fifth the number of females at the age of work in the early years
of the third millennium.
The ratio of female contribution to the labor force has increased
reaching 29.5% for 2006 census, compared to 14.5% in 1984.
Women participation in economic and social activities was
tangibly varied to involve a wide spectrum of scientific,
managerial and leadership-based professions. The Libyan
women have been engaged in professions many women
worldwide still find inaccessible in fields like judiciary and
police.