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The persisting difference in earnings between women and men (the so-called Gender Pay Gap – GPG) is 15% in the European Union. While the multiple causes of GPG are of very similar nature worldwide, some countries started looking into the

Lenka Simerská is head of the Czech Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs’ Project 22% EQUALITY, which aims to eliminate the gender pay gap. She spoke with Dinah Richter Spritzer about the Czech Republic’s long-standing struggle to narrow the gap,

The European Commission has today presented a proposal on pay transparency to ensure that women and men in the EU get equal pay for equal work. A political priority of President von der Leyen, the proposal sets out pay transparency measures, such as pay information

Coronavirus penetrates into all spheres of our lives and fundamentally shuffles the cards even in the labour market. It can be assumed that more and more people from the most affected fields, especially gastronomy, hotel industry and tourism, will be

Our project became a direct inspiration for a video by Alena Huberova, trainer, speaker, and coach. If you are an English-speaking woman working in the Czech Republic, you might appreciate her take on the issue. She also provides advice valuable

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

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 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

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

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