Female labor force in the Muslim world is the state-sponsored religion. Similarly, Indonesia, which is the world's largest Muslim country, guarantees freedom of religion but only recognizes six official religions. Islam is one of and the most prominent of the six. Despite a common religion, majority Muslim nations are quite disparate in terms of size, population, demographic composition, and the legal framework of religion. Table 2: Female Labor Force Participation Rate Source: Global Gender Gap Report 2012, World Economic Forum A basic indicator of women's involvement in the formal economy is a statistic known as the labor force participation rate. This data point shows the percentage of
Female labor force in the Muslim world 38% of the labor force is composed of women, only 1% of these individuals are employers. One tenth of one percent of female workers in Bangladesh are employers despite the nation's sizable female labor pool. This number is one eighth of the percentage of Syrian women who are employers. Syria has, of course, only one eighth the population of Bangladesh. In majority Muslim countries, very few women and a small percentage of women who do work are employers. Such high rates of self-employment and low rates of females as employers suggest that the economies of Muslim nations provide few formal