Women continue to be paid less than men, with base wages averaging 13% lower, and the wage gap widening among the most qualified, a CGTP survey conducted on the occasion of Equality Week shows.
In the paper, the CGTP analyzes official statistics, indicating that average wages across the economy as a whole fell by 4.5% in real terms in 2022 compared to 2021, with the fall in general government workers being greater (-5.7% ) than the private sector (-3.6%).
In this context of a general loss of purchasing power, “working women are paid even less than working men,” the union stresses.
According to the analysis, for women “basic wages are 13% lower, a difference that reached an average of 153 euros in 2021, while among senior managers it was about 600 euros.”
“It is among the most skilled workers that the percentage difference is greatest: 24.5% among senior managers, 14% among middle managers and 16.5% among highly qualified specialists,” the document says.
The wage gap between workers and unskilled workers is 6.8% “due to the existence of a national minimum wage where women workers make up 52%,” the trade union center adds.
About 30% of women in the private sector earn the national minimum wage, compared to 23% for men, the CGTP reports, citing July 2021 data from the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Welfare.
As for home and remote work, in the 4th quarter of last year, 454.6 thousand women (18.7% of women’s employment) performed it from home, of which 28% constantly, 29% regularly in various forms, 28% during off-hours . and 14% sometimes point to CGTP.
The study also states that about one million 800 thousand employees work in shifts, at night, on Saturdays or Sundays, or a combination of these types of schedules, of which 872.6 thousand are women (49% of the total).
CGTP is hosting the 10th edition of Equality Week from March 6 to 10 with various initiatives in the country including concentrations, strikes, parades and demonstrations, especially on the 8th, International Women’s Day.
The motto of CGTP’s 10th Equality Week will be under the theme of “Pay Raises to Change Lives and Promote Equality.”
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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