Without workplace protections to help, many women find no alternative but to leave their jobs, go part time or take less demanding and therefore, lower paying positions.
The annual meeting of the Arab League, which Iraqi leaders hoped would showcase the progress they claimed their country had made, was postponed because, with the Arab world boiling, many leaders did not want to leave their countries, in part out of fear they would never return.
Bristol City Council says residents from five blocks of flats have been asked to leave their homes as part of an on-going chemical incident.
General Motors announced late Monday that another 35,000 of its employees have agreed to accept incentives to leave their jobs as part of a turnaround program to improve GM's North American operations.
Here are some other actors who have found it impossible to leave their most famous parts behind - and some who have managed to reinvent themselves.
Part of me wanted them to leave their legacy alone; another part just wanted anything they had to offer.
The biggest barrier to equality was the lack of choice for women who have children, who are forced to leave their job or work part time, the report said.
By the time Rosi Edreira and her husband got the order to leave their home in Cutler Bay, part of the second evacuation zone in Miami-Dade County, they had already made plans to seek shelter in Charlotte, N.C.
Millions more have been forced to leave their homes for other parts of the country.
People were saying: 'Who's this little boy with a small voice, spitting hot verses?'" It was a strange experience, leaving their small part of east London – their geographical horizons as narrow as the musical ones were broad.
