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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#555555">Gender Employment Gap in the EU
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><img width="262" height="211" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D4F3CA.2233CAF0" alt="© Robert Kneschke / Shutterstock.com"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">March 7, 2019 - In 2017, the employment rate of women aged 20 – 64 (66.5%) was 11.5 percentage points
(pp) lower than that of men aged 20 - 64 (78.0%) in the European Union (EU). In other words, the gender employment gap in the EU stood at 11.5 pp.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Among the EU Member States, the gender employment gap was lowest in Lithuania (1.0 pp), Finland (3.5
pp), Sweden (4.0 pp) and Latvia (4.3 pp).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">At the opposite end of the scale, the largest employment gap between men and women was observed in Malta
(24.1 pp), followed by Italy (19.8 pp) and Greece (19.7 pp).</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/4187653/9451024/Employment_gap_cliff_2019-02.jpg/466ac3d4-d698-4e84-97ef-d6fbbcfc2309?t=1551459085467" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="774" height="1126" id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D4F3CA.2233CAF0" alt="Gender employment gap 2017"></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Decreasing trend in majority of the EU Member States</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Compared with five years ago, the gender employment gap decreased in the EU by 0.7 pp (from 12.2 pp in
2012 to 11.5 pp in 2017). A decrease occurred in 16 EU Member States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Between 2012 and 2017, the largest decreases in the employment gap between men and women were recorded
in Malta (-7.3 pp) and Luxembourg (-6.5 pp), followed by Slovakia (-2.7 pp) and Germany (-2.6 pp). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">However, the gender employment gap rose over this period in 11 EU Member States. The highest increase
was recorded in Hungary (+4.2 pp), followed by Ireland (+3.5 pp) and Bulgaria (+2.4 pp).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">The gender employment gap remained stable in Slovenia (with a gap equal to 7.2 pp in both 2012 and 2017).<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">EUROSTAT - <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/EDN-20190307-1">
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/EDN-20190307-1</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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