Women’s participation in economic activities and the forms of work they engage in are thus still strongly tied to their familial roles, either directly in the form of subsistence work or indirectly as participants in the household’s market-related activities, such as crop and livestock production. [...] The determination of whether a worker is involved in market work (for purposes of pay or profit) versus solely subsistence work is based on whether the household has sold any of the products of the activity in the past twelve months. [...] 3 Gender differences in participation in various measures of work in Sudan 3.1 Sudan in a global perspective We present in Table 2 rates of participation in any work, paid and unpaid work for men and women in Sudan according to the individual as well as “added” measures and provide a comparison of the predicted average rates obtained from Bandiera et al. [...] About 30 percent are engaged in self-employment, 40 percent in unpaid market work, and just under 50 percent in subsistence work.5 Most of the workers involved in subsistence work are also involved in market work, with only 5 percent of all women and 17 percent of working women involved in only subsistence work. [...] Differences in involvement in both work and market work between men and women are statistically significant in favor of men for all the subgroups we examine (see Table A5 in the Appendix).
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