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Waging war on the pay gap
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March the 8th is International Women's Day. But how much have women in Europe got to celebrate?
Women earn an average of 15% less than men- a figure which rises to 25% in the private sector.
Reducing the gender pay gap is an important topic on the European political agenda.
A new video report from the European Commission Directorate General Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities explains how a number of EU countries are taking actions to try to end discrimination against women in the workplace.
Women earn an average of 15% less than men- a figure which rises to 25% in the private sector.
Reducing the gender pay gap is an important topic on the European political agenda.
A new video report from the European Commission Directorate General Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities explains how a number of EU countries are taking actions to try to end discrimination against women in the workplace.
A TV campaign for equal pay in Belgium shows the frustration women feel when they earn
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less than men. It's a little how Liliane Parent and her colleagues felt working in this Belgian
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supermarket, knowing they were paid less than their male colleagues.
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The women in the food and the men in the food are paid at a different salary. And there
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is a very big difference between them. That is 122 euros gross per month that they earn
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less than the men.
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On average, the pay difference between men and women in Belgium is around 16%. There
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is an equal pay law, but there are ways around that.
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Every day, in the company, the woman who cleans the offices is called the cleaning lady or
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the cleaning lady. And the man who cleans the supermarket or the company by pushing
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a small machine is called the surface technician. And that is what allows him to get a different
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salary.
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The Eva project was launched by the Equality Institute to give training in a new job evaluation
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system to make employees more aware of possible gender bias.
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Deleuze employs 16,000 people, two-thirds are women. It's one of a growing number of
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Belgian companies now using new job classifications.
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Throughout Europe, the average pay difference between men and women is 25% in the private
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sector, despite EU legislation which states that women should receive equal pay for equal
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work or work of equal value.
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One of the main reasons for the gap is that jobs such as childcare and nursing are mainly
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done by women and tend to be undervalued and so underpaid. Women often have to juggle work
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with family responsibilities and often have to choose more poorly paid part-time jobs.
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But there are some changes afoot. In Spain, there is ambitious new equality legislation
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as well as greater rights of work. The law wants to see 40% female representation in
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company boardrooms.
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France also has legislation and when France takes over the EU presidency later this year,
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President Sarkozy wants to make closing the pay gap a priority. And the European Commission
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plans to review all EU equality laws.
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We're going to look together with the member states at whether the legislation is fit for
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purpose, is it up to date. Secondly, member states in their own employment and social
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policies can look to see how they can tackle the pay gap, including through tackling job
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segregation, encouraging girls and women to enter professions which perhaps they previously
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thought were not open to them, and also to see, for example, how fathers can share family
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responsibilities as well.
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In Belgium, the women in Delaire are happier now their jobs have been reassessed and they
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will finally get the same pay as the men.
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Clearly change doesn't happen overnight, but perhaps at last some progress is starting to be made.
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- Niveles educativos:
- ▼ Mostrar / ocultar niveles
- Nivel Intermedio
- Autor/es:
- The European Union
- Subido por:
- EducaMadrid
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada
- Visualizaciones:
- 1868
- Fecha:
- 6 de marzo de 2008 - 16:52
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Enlace Relacionado:
- European Commission
- Duración:
- 03′ 31″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
- Resolución:
- 480x360 píxeles
- Tamaño:
- 8.13 MBytes
