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Isn't Eastern Europe more progressive when it comes to female participation in the workforce? Also I find it hard to believe there's a significant pay gap for
by darebak 5y ago
Isn't Eastern Europe more progressive when it comes to female participation in the workforce?
Also I find it hard to believe there's a significant pay gap for the same position when the workers have the same experience and the same education. Or that that gap is gendered, meaning that weaker negotiatiors get lower salaries.
- ethbr0 5y agoUnsure about participation, but I know there's been a decades-long trend (since the 60s) where women were outpacing men in tertiary education enrollment growth in many regions, overtaking them in absolute terms sometime in the 70s/80s. See p77 (PDF p59): https://www.macfound.org/media/files/unesco-world-atlas-gender-education.pdf https://www.macfound.org/media/files/unesco-world-atlas-gend...
- simonh 5y agoFor workers with the same experience, personality traits (there's a big overlap between female and male personality traits), employment history, etc in the most progressive nations the remaining pay gap is just a few percent. Small enough that it's on the edge of the error bars. It's bigger in the US. A lot of the claims that there's no pay gap are based on countries like Sweden, and then misapplied to the US which does have a persistent unjustified pay gap, albeit a much, much smaller one than even a few decades ago. We are definitely and very clearly moving in the right direction, there's no question about that, but we're not quite there yet.