Gender pay gap

One of the significant deficiencies in the 50-year-old democracy established after the military dictatorship in Greece, in comparison to our European counterparts, is its failure to secure equal participation of women in political and economic spheres.

In Bulgaria, the latest data from the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) reveals a notable trend: in the third quarter of 2023, both women and men registered equal shares of part-time employment, each at 1%.

The employment rate among women remains less than half that of men, statistical body TÜİK has revealed in a report ahead of International Women's Day.

According to the latest data collected over the past two years, the overall employment rate for the population aged 15 and above stands at 47.5 percent, while only 30.4 percent of women are employed compared to 65 percent of men.

The monthly average gross earning was 12,450 Turkish Liras ($425) last year, with male employees making more money than females, the data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) have shown.

The hourly average gross wage-salary was 55.4 liras, TÜİK said in its Structure of Earnings Statistics.

Women employed in the European Union are still earning 13 percent on average less than their male counterparts, the European Commission has said.

"This means that for every euro a man earns, a women will make only 87 cents," the commission said in a statement.

Looked at another way, women have to work more days in a year to attain the same annual salary level as a man.

Female employment rate was seen at less than half of the male employment rate, while 30.4 percent of women feel insecure when they were walking alone at night in their own neighborhood, data from Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) has revealed.

TÜİK published the 2022 statistics regarding several parameters about women in Türkiye.

Ljubljana – The pay gap between men and women in Slovenia narrowed slightly in 2020, by 3.6 points annually to 2.2%, preliminary figures released by the Statistics Office show. The gap in the private sector stood at 6.5% and at 10.7% in the public sector.

Average monthly net pay in the country increased by 5.4% to EUR 1,252 in 2020 over 2019.

Ljubljana – The government approved a draft resolution last week on the National Programme for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men until 2030, which sets out the objectives and measures to achieve equal opportunities between the genders in Slovenia, focusing on labour market segregation, the gender pay gap and dividing household work.

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"Women in Bulgaria receive salaries which are an average of 14% lower than the salaries of men. This places the country within the "golden mean" among the other countries members of the EU," Ivaylo Dinev from the Institute for Social and Trade Union Research of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) said for the BNR.

In 2018, 5.2% of employed persons aged 15 to 64 in the European Union (EU) usually worked from home. This share has remained constant at around 5% throughout the last decade. However, over the same period, the share of those who sometimes work from home increased from 5.8% in 2008 to 8.3% in 2018.