Eurostat highlights the gender pay gap in European Union

The EU-Eurostat published a report which revealed that gender inequality in terms of salaries still prevails in the European Union, while averaging 16.4 % in 2013 among EU member states. According to this report, Estonia showed the biggest gender gap with 29.9%, followed by Austria (23.0 %), the Czech Republic (22.1 %) and Germany (21.6 %). On the opposite side, these differences reached record lows in the following countries: Slovenia (3.2 %), Malta (5.1 %), Poland (6.4 %), Italy (7.3 %) and finally Croatia with 7.4%.  Compared with 2008, Eurostat figures indicated a reduction in the gap in most EU member states. Furthermore, Eurostat Office pointed out that the gender gap is not limited to salaries only, as two thirds of senior management posts in the EU are still male-dominated. (L’Orient Le Jour, March 6 2015)