Libya's Female Unemployment Rate during the Covid-19 Pandemic, Compared with Previous Years

Abstract

The issue of unemployment is among the most important and urgent challenges facing the Libyan state, especially as it coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic, The MENA region faces both the highest overall unemployment levels and the widest gender gap worldwide. Hence, the current study aims to analyze the unemployment rate developed during the Corona pandemic among females in Libya, through data obtained from secondary data Comparison among the years (2011-2020). The results show that the unemployment rates in the workforce in Libya for women are higher than those for men and that in the year 2020 in which Covid-19 spread, the unemployment rate for men increased, also same for women. in addition, the Unemployment rate for females in Libya has gradually decreased, from 2016, but in 2020 when Covid-19 swept the country, which increased the Unemployment rate for females in Libya, as the rate in 2019 was equal to 24.57, while it suddenly increased in 2020 to 24.66.