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In 2014, the average difference between the average monthly net income of a man and a woman was 141 euros, with men earning on average 892 euros and women 751 euros. Therefore, in 10 years, this difference has increased, with men now receiving an average of 1,311 euros per month and women receiving 1,069 euros, writes Sapo News.
According to Randstad, although the agricultural sector is the one with the highest growth in the wage gap, around 750%, it is still in services that above-average variations are recorded, with a current difference of 304 euros.
Regarding the number of women in management positions, Portugal recorded an improvement of 25.2 percentage points (pp), whereas in 2014 the country was 10.3 pp below the European average, with only 9.5% of women in leadership positions.
In 2024, Portugal will match the European average with 34.7% of women in management positions.
In Portugal's position in the Global Gender Equality Index, the country registered growth from 53.7 pp in 2013 to 68.6 pp in 2024, however, Portugal remains 2.4 percentage points below the European Union average of 71 pp.
Regarding women in the Portuguese job market, the number has increased by 20.7% in the last 10 years, which translates into 436,400 more women in employment, now representing 49.5% of the employed population.
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Average salaries aren't really a useful stat as women and men tend to gravitate to different jobs.
More interesting would be to answer the question: does equal work (men and women doing the same job) translate to equal pay?
By Shawn from Lisbon on 04 Mar 2025, 12:48
"More interesting would be to answer the question: does equal work (men and women doing the same job) translate to equal pay?"
That would be a useful study and not the type of click bait article that was posted.
By j from Algarve on 05 Mar 2025, 11:17
A meaningless study, as each gender is doing different types of job. You have to compare like for like. Women aren't systematically paid less than men - that would be illegal - but they tend to work different jobs that pay less.
Take the airline industry. The vast majority of pilots are men, while most cabin crew are women. The salary of the former will be several times the latter. Nothing to do with gender, but skill set and qualifications. So the airline industry is going to have a massive gender pay gap, based on the predilection of each gender for specific job roles. If a woman trains to be a pilot, she'll earn the same as a male pilot (leaving aside grade/seniority).
I wish these studies would understand this, it's crucial to the results obtained. Instead, they're trying to say women are being discriminated against and deliberately underpaid. That's not a logical conclusion to reach.
By Billy Bissett from Porto on 05 Mar 2025, 13:26