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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10566

3 March 2012
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SECTORAL POLICY / (ae) women
Pay gap reflects gender inequality

Brussels, 02/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - Women still earn less than men in the European Union. On the second European Equal Pay Day (Friday 2 March 2012), the European Commission published the latest pay gap figures, showing that in 2010, women earned 16.4% less on average than men in the EU27, slightly higher than the previous year, when they earned 17% less. There are huge gaps within the EU, however, with the women's pay gap ranging from 2% in Poland to more than 27% in Estonia. The...

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