"This grudging labor participation exposes an underlying vulnerability of the economic recovery."

But the labor participation remains lower today than it was two years ago or at the start of the recession.

There was an encouraging rise in labor participation.

However, this quantitative increase in labor participation for women has not been accompanied by higher qualitative standards of labor.

The urban garment industry has created more than one million formal sector jobs for women, contributing to the high female labor participation in Bangladesh.

Human trafficking helps perpetuate the forced labor participation and global poverty.

This gap in labor participation increases for those with less than a high school diploma.

The steepest turnaround in labor participation has occurred among older men.

Female labor participation is vital to improving regional disparities in a competitive world, and will increase in value over time.

Female labor participation can act as a substitute for more generalized labor mobility too.