These benefits are available to all salaried people, regardless of gender.

In 2003, 1,072,600 women were employed (compared to 1,257,600 men), 978,000 were salaried employees.

984,600 of the employed persons were Jewish women, 895,800 of them were salaried employees.

91.2 of the employed women were salaried employees and only 4.6 were self employed.

In the same year, there were 104,000 salaried women employees, compared to 36,800 men.

These principles are included in the training given to both salaried personnel and conscripts.

Salaried employment of males corresponds, according to INE (1998), about 16 , and the female about 4 .

At the same time, most of the employed men (81.9 ) were salaried employees and 8.8 were self employed.

Also, 95.5 of those women were salaried employees, a figure resulting from the nature of women's participation in the labour market.

Salaried women and men are entitled to certain family benefits that can be claimed either by the husband or the wife.

The scarce participation of women in salaried work is also explained due to low levels of education, which limits their participation in formal jobs.

In the public and private sectors alike, Guinean women are underrepresented among salaried staff, and are largely concentrated in the lower and middle ranking positions.

The Québec system is more inclusive than the federal system since it extends eligibility to self employed workers as well as salaried workers who have not accumulated 600 insurable work hours.

The unemployment rate has been reduced thanks to innovative measures such as microcredits, the promotion of entrepreneurship, labour intensive work of public utility, pre employment contracts, local salaried employee initiatives and compensation for activities of general benefit.

For the part of national defence, both salaried personnel and conscripts are given sufficient training in order for soldiers in a command position to be able to organise the activities of their troop according to the principles of IHL.

Domestic workers had the same rights to benefits such as vacation time as any other salaried employee special labour contracts were also possible for both men and women doing specific types of work, for example rural and domestic workers, who were mostly indigenous and whose compensation generally included food and housing.

According to the World Bank, each year an additional five million turn 15, crossing the threshold from childhood to adulthood. Given the slow pace of positive structural transformation, the Bank projects that over the next decade only one in four African youth will find regular employment as a salaried worker, and that only a small fraction of those will be in the formal sector of modern enterprises.

Finally, we have committed ourselves to measures aimed at addressing France s weakened competitiveness, via a National Pact for Growth, Competitiveness, and Employment, which includes a 20 billion cut in labor costs for employers, to be phased in over three years. A new corporate tax credit will cut payroll taxes by 6 for all wages below 2.5 times the minimum wage a step that will benefit more than 80 of all salaried workers.

Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya are three clear cases of massive popular anger against economic underdevelopment and the dictatorships that were justifiably blamed for it. The major difference between the three is that in Tunisia and Egypt, economic development had gone far enough to give rise to a small trading and salaried middle class, which initiated the rebellions and whose members were sufficient in number to succeed at least in deposing the dictators.