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When Women Are Free, Economies Thrive

• fee.org by Chelsea Follett

The piece was met with ridicule, and rightly so. Women should be free to make their own choices about family and career. Fortunately, no country actually bans a woman's choice to be a homemaker. Unfortunately, in much of the world, a woman's options to work outside the home are severely limited by government meddling.

One of the more frightening revelations in the UN's recent Human Development Report concerns the state of women's economic freedom around the world. In 100 countries the government forbids women from working in some professions. Argentinian women are barred from running distilleries, Russian women from becoming woodworkers or freight train conductors, and Emirati women from "managing and monitoring mechanical machines."

For too many women around the world, economic freedom is a distant dream.


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