“Thirty years ago, the United States ranked sixth among advanced economies in the share of women in the workforce. You know where we are today? Twenty-three.”
What PolitiFact found
The United States used to rank near the top of industrialized nations in women's labor force participation rate, but in the past 30 years, many countries have leapfrogged the U.S.
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In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 5 October 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 October 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/10/05/remarks-by-president…
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