Female representation in the labour force improved significantly from 74.1 per cent in 2015 to 80.5 per cent in 2025.
This reflects the rising educational profile of women and collective efforts to support them to stay in or return to the labour force, according to MOM.
But Singapore still lags behind leading high-income countries because of women’s low part-time employment rate – 5.9 per cent, compared to the average of 13.7 per cent among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.
Mr Ang said besides higher education, other contributing factors to women’s labour force participation include the change in social attitudes towards gender roles in childcare and the availability of childcare facilities.
Male labour force participation remained high at 91.8 per cent.
