EU, equality on the planet of labor is way away: employment hole of 10% between women and men | EUROtoday

On the entrance of the style, the 2024 report of the INPS confirms a big hole: in 2023 the feminine employment charge in Italy stopped at 52.5%, in comparison with 70.4% of males, with a niche equal to 17.9 share factors. Female hires represented simply 42.3% of the whole. In addition, employment instability impacts above all ladies: solely 18% of their hires are indefinitely, towards 22.6% of males.

Spain: the hole is decreased, but it surely stays

In Spain the image seems much less important than Italy, however the gender hole has not but been overcome. In 2024, the employment charge for girls between 16 and 64 years of age was 62.6%, towards 71.8% of males, with a niche of 9.2 share factors, reducing in comparison with 10.8 factors in 2015. The enchancment was there, additionally because of lively insurance policies: will increase within the minimal wage, discount of working hours to the identical remuneration and reforms for contractual stability, all measures which have all measures above all benefited ladies.

However, important points associated to household care persist: 15.1% of inactive ladies say they don’t work to cope with kids or relations, towards simply 3.5% of males. And the wage hole, albeit reducing, nonetheless stands at 8.7%.

The inequalities additionally have an effect on individuals with disabilities: in 2023 their exercise charge was 35.5%, about half of the overall inhabitants (78.5%).

Lithuania: obvious fairness, however with sturdy regional disparities

If we have a look at Lithuania, the information present substantial equality within the absolute variety of occupied women and men (722,600 males and 725,200 ladies in 2025). However, the feminine unemployment charge (8.7%) stays larger than the male one (8.2%), with sturdy territorial gaps: in Visaginas feminine unemployment exceeds 12%, whereas in Neringa it stops at 2.5%.