Women in Ukraine

Women in Ukraine
Ukrainian peasant women in Chaszczowanie (ukr. Хащованя), Poland, c. late 1930s.
General Statistics
Maternal mortality (per 100,000)32 (2010)
Women in parliament20.8% (2019)
Women over 25 with secondary education91.5% (2012)
Women in labour force62% [M:74%] (2016)
Gender Inequality Index
Value0.200 (2021)
Rank49th out of 191
Global Gender Gap Index
Value0.707 (2022)
Rank81st out of 146

Women in Ukraine have equal constitutional rights as men in the economic, political, cultural, and social fields, as well as in the family.

Most of the around 45 percent of Ukraine's population (45 million) who suffer violence – physical, sexual, or mental – are women.