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On April 13, 2020, the prestigious scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS) published an article dealing with the issue of increasing wage differences between workplaces in the USA and other high-income countries, including the Czech Republic. Sociologist Alena Křížková from the Department of Gender and Sociology of the Institute of Sociology of the ASCR was […]

Although the average earnings in the Czech Republic are increasing year-by-year, the income gap between women and men remains. According to the latest Eurostat statistics, women currently earn on average 20.1 percent less than men. Symbolically, they work part of the year for free. This year, it has been since October 19, 2020. In the

The article was published on the web BBC News – 27th July, 2020. __ London-listed companies are more profitable when women make up more than one in three executive roles, according to new research. Listed firms where at least one-third of the bosses are women have a profit margin more than 10 times greater than those without, it

The article was published on the web BRNO Daily – 25th June, 2020. __ The gender pay gap in the Czech Republic remains over 20% and is one of the highest in the EU. There is a similar picture in South Moravia. Men’s wages have even managed to grow at a faster rate than women’s over the last

What is the position of Czech women on the labour market? How big a slice of the female population is employed and what is their share in the technology industry? Those are some of the factors taken into account in compiling the Women in Work Index which compares conditions for women on the labour market