It is clear that women, who are now half of the work force in the world, play an indispensible role in the U.S. and global economies.
Slightly more than half of the work force is in agriculture, but services are the major source of economic growth, accounting for more than half of India's output, with only one-third of its labor force.
So will the latest food security scheme aimed at providing subsidised food grains to 75% of the rural population and half of the urban households work?
During the second half of the meeting the members of the committee discussed the work of Communities First across Wales.
About half of the recruits will work in research and development.
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Interest in work sharing grew during the recent recession, but fewer than half of the states operate a work sharing program, and employers may not know about work sharing even where it is available.
But those businesses that are in the last 3 percent of businesses happen to employ half -- half -- of all the people who work in small business.
Instead of trying to figure out how to pay for the cost of care, we try to work on the other half of the equation: How to innovate to reduce costs and improve the quality and accessibility of care.
The latest Greek employment data shows that more than half of people under the age of 25 are out of work.
Telford's victory was earned when Brown, last season's top scorer, converted a Meechan cross on the half hour, with Meechan himself hitting the ball into the roof of the net following good work by Martyn Naylor minutes into the second half.
According to IDC, half of the iPads used at work are being brought in as individually-owned devices.
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Not, I should add my last day at the BBC, as, along with half of my colleagues who work for the News website I am heading to W1, the new home of BBC News at Broadcasting House - the bright lights of central London and all that.
Smith, 52, is the voluble half of an odd couple of Amgen scientists whose early work led to Enbrel, the billion-dollar blockbuster targeting rheumatoid arthritis.
The decisive moment in the game came in the 18th minute of the first half when Eoin Mulligan hit the only goal of the game following good work by Peter Canavan.
Indeed, some of the early indications are that the strategy is beginning to work: these days, almost half of the military operations that unfold in Afghanistan are led by Afghans.
The situation has become so absurd that Mr Yushchenko is trying to block the work of the cabinet, half of which he chose.
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Less than half the normal shift of 200 men went into work, but the pit was able to continue production.
Project contractors Kiewit and the Penhall Company completed their work demolishing the southern half of the Mulholland Drive Bridge well ahead of schedule, allowing the 405 to reopen beginning at 11:30 am on Sunday, instead of 5:00 am Monday as planned.
The joint venture is expected to begin work in the first half of next year, targeting between three and five projects initially, Rio Tinto said.
Since many of the people who work on the Stripe product are users of it (half of them had already used Stripe before they joined the company), they have a good feel for what product improvements might be useful or important.
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About 550 people work at the factory, but only about half of them work on cookie dough, she said.
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Chief Executive Steven Pearse grandly predicts that Cyras could be worth 20 times that by the summer debut of its first product, a box no bigger than a TV set doing the work of a half-dozen large routers and phone switches.
This reform, helped along by the booming economy, has moved half of all recipients off the welfare rolls and into work.
Spain has the highest levels of youth unemployment in the European Union, with almost half its under-25s out of work, followed closely by Greece.
"About half of the blueberries we picked made it into the can, the other half we ate, blue fingers and tongues the proof of our work, " she says.
Unfortunately for Thomas he hooked the simple kick left of the posts, spoiling the fly-half's previous good work.
Fast forward five-and-a-half years and the good work of ship-steadying by Walter Smith and then Alex McLeish has been ripped apart.
Senator McAleese's inquiry found that half of the girls and women put to work in the laundries were under the age of 23 and 40%, more than 4, 000, spent more than a year incarcerated.
That was the case until the stroke of half-time when they almost undid the visitors' good work.
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