Women working in the EU lose €358 billion a year due to the gender pay gap, amounting to almost €3,900 per person, as several European countries missed the bloc’s Pay Transparency Directive deadline.
Thats capitalism for you
I would have liked to know what the gap is structured by job as well as gender.
Having a discrepancy based on choice of profession has to be approached differently than a discrepancy based on gender as the determining factor (which is the point the report makes, as far as I saw).
Making professions have a more representative amount of workers should be in everyone’s interest, not just gender wise, but also culturally and socially, etc, and needs to make the underrepresented groups want to get the education required, in addition to all the other factors such as work culture.
Ofc this is just my viewpoint from a country where we’re so incredibly privileged that most anyone can get a higher education. I’m not even going to try to speak for countries with different cultural and social norms and structures.
Still, I find saying “EU” as a blanket term, and presenting the data based only on gender as a factor provides little value, as it makes the data so over generalized it’s hard to find anything to act on or improve. Rather it just adds another data point to be upset about in a long list of them.
I wish instead of getting the general “shit is bad” report, we’d get something that could be used to further the discussion into clear action in specific places. However, to do that it’s not sufficient to say “in the EU”, might as well say “in the Americas”.
I’m sure I’ve overlooked something in my reading of and responding to the report. If so, it was done out of ignorance more than anything else, and without malice. Don’t listen to weird ramblings on the internet.
