Cambodia

Cambodia is a small country bordered by Thailand and Loas on the north and Vietnam on the east and south. The country has a rough population of 15 million and is the size of Missouri. The country consists mainly of grainy plains ringed by mountains and has two large body of waters Mekong River on the east side and in the center Lake Tonie Sap, which is the storage basin of the Mekong. Cambodia’s main language is 95 percent Khmer and then French and English are the other 5 percent. Their labor force is 8.8 million est. in 2012 with 75 percent of it being agriculture. The industries that they focus on mainly are tourism, garments, rice milling, fishing, wood and wood products, gem mining and textiles and that’s how the country gets a living. They also have almost 45 percent of women employed in nonagricultural sectors, which is very low for a country of any size. The country also has a very low percentage of females that have seats in their national parliaments with 20 percent so it shows that males dominate the work force and the nations power of voting for decisions.

The Quantitative figures of this country and their labor force participation rates for men and women are actually very close over all despite the idea of men over taking women in the working fields. The figures actually show that men of Cambodia are actually 90.9 percent for primary completion rate. The women actually have the upper hand with a percentage of 91.7 and that’s above the men but just barely, but it shows that women are higher then makes. Cambodia has grown little by little but over all has stayed relatively the same throughout the past twenty-five years. In 1990 the overall participation was at 91.6 percent and then in the next five years it went down just a little to 90.8 and then right back up to the highest level of 93.4 percentage of labor force participation. Finally now at the end of the graph with 2011 the work force was at 91.3 percent so you can see the percentage of the labor force fluctuate, but it also stayed basically the same throughout twenty-five years of the countries growth.

The country’s wage laws are pretty much enforced, as our country would do when a pay problem arises they go and hold a strike against their employers. This happened not to long ago when just the females of the company coordinated a strike to press for an increase in monthly salary to $160. The women of this company dominated the frontlines of the movement and the basic factory work force with a staggering 80 percent of the factory. So clearly you can see from this instant the work force wage labor is not equal and not enforced strongly. The wage laws show that there has been a pattern to this treatment repeatedly across the countries past for decades so its clear to so that women are treated differently then the men in the work force. So the country as a whole has evenly matched work participation and has stayed basically the same for the past twenty-five years but from history and patterns till up to date men have been seen as a higher driven worker then women. By the county seeing this and doing this woman have been down graded and have been recognized basically as a second class worker where they do not deserve the same amount pay to the men in the factories.