EU campaign: Equal pay between men and women
3 March 2009
The gender pay gap is 17.4% across Europe. There has been little
progress in reducing it in recent years. In fact, in some Member
States the gap is even widening.
The pay gap is linked to a number of complex causes which are
frequently interrelated: the undervaluing of women’s work,
segregation in the labour market, traditions and stereotypes, and
problems in balancing work and private life. The gender pay gap is
the consequence of all these factors and inequalities in the labour
market.
For these reasons, the Commission is launching a campaign to
raise public awareness of the gender pay gap and to explain how it
can be tackled.
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