abstract: 'The paper describes gender inequality in employment across 28 EU

  countries. Gender inequality in employment persists despite European

  commission is focused on decreasing it. Gender equality is guaranteed by

  the Charter of Fundamental Rights and supported by the Strategy for

  equality between women and men and also by the Europe 2020 Employment

  Strategy. However, women are still in a worse position on the labour

  market compared with men. Therefore, European Commission (EC) focused

  mostly on achieving lower disparities between genders by encouraging

  women to participate on the labour market. EC guarantees the same

  working rights for both genders with the aim of preventing

  discrimination. Gender inequality differs depending on the analysed

  sector. Therefore, the paper focuses on the analysis of the employment

  gender inequality across sectors since 2000 until 2017. Gender

  inequality indicator was calculated as a ratio between the lower and

  upper gender rates minus one to assess the severity of the inequality.

  Further, we have compared gender inequality indicators in employment and

  the labour force participation. Positive linear correlation was

  determined too. Gender inequality indicator for employment was always

  higher than gender inequality indicator of labour force participation,

  and it was more susceptible to structural changes. Gender inequality in

  employment did not depend on time, but it has depended on country and

  employment sectors. The highest gender inequality value was reported in

  southern countries such as Malta, Italy and Greece, while the lowest one

  was reported in northern countries, such as Sweden and Finland. When it

  comes to sectors, men were employed more than women in agriculture and

  industry sector, while women were employed more than men in services

  sector. However, when gender inequality indicators across sectors were

  compared, higher gender inequality was reported when women were worse

  off on the labour market. The crisis in the year 2008 had substantial

  impact on the employment gender inequality and it led to its decrease on

  panel level. The consequences of this impact were permanent, and it set

  the new, lower equilibrium of the employment gender inequality.'
affiliation: 'Fad''os, M (Corresponding Author), Comenius Univ, Fac Management, Dept
  Econ \& Finance, Bratislava, Slovakia.

  Fad''os, Marina, Comenius Univ, Fac Management, Dept Econ \& Finance, Bratislava,
  Slovakia.

  Bohdalova, Maria, Comenius Univ, Fac Management, Dept Informat Syst, Bratislava,
  Slovakia.'
author: Fad'os, Marina and Bohdalova, Maria
author-email: 'marina.fados@fm.uniba.sk

  maria.bohdalova@fm.uniba.sk'
author_list:
- family: Fad'os
  given: Marina
- family: Bohdalova
  given: Maria
booktitle: 'PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENDER RESEARCH (ICGR

  2019)'
da: '2023-09-28'
editor: Paoloni, P and Paoloni, M and Arduini, S
files: []
isbn: 978-1-912764-16-7
keywords: gender inequality; labour market; employment; labour force; sector
keywords-plus: EMPLOYMENT; INEQUALITY; WAGE; GAP
language: English
note: '2nd International Conference on Gender Research (ICGR), Roma Tre Univ,

  Ipazia Sci Observ Gender Issues, Rome, ITALY, APR 11-12, 2019'
number-of-cited-references: '23'
pages: 214-222
papis_id: e2a61a622bf6fa8d8e9fe71934c02665
ref: Fados2019labourmarket
times-cited: '1'
title: Labour Market of the 28 EU Countries by Gender
type: proceedings
unique-id: WOS:000471634700028
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '19'
web-of-science-categories: Social Issues
year: '2019'