However, across most majority Muslim nations, there is a sharp convergence on female employers.

The second largest percentage of female employers as a percentage of female workers is 3% in Egypt.

She had been beaten by her female employer, and was helped to escape the house by the employer's 16-year-old son, after receiving not a cent of salary.

If it smells, "Mama," as the aspiring maids were instructed to call their female employers, "will be angry and she will hammer and beat you."

So often companies pay lip service to equal opportunities, and, by and large, male and female employers will own up to finding their female employees more impressive, as born out by the report.

Possible explanations for this phenomena could the same determinants of high self-employment among females and low rates of female employers: low levels of economic development, gendered employment social norms, or capital-intensive industry.

The wide gap between male and female labor force participation rates and ratios, and the gap between male and female employers is indicative of gender inequality within the private sector of majority Muslim countries.

The former tells the tale of a man whose female employer falls in love with him, but in retribution for his rejection of her, she plants a ring in his pocket and denounces him as a thief.