Portugal was the European country that worsened the pay gap of the last five years
According to data from Eurostat, women from the European Union received salaries 16% inferior than men in 2016. In Portugal, there was a 17,5% difference.
Salary discrepancies continue. According to data from Eurostat, women in the European Union received salaries that were 16.2% lower than man’s in 2016. But in Portugal, during that period, there was a 17.5% difference — the seventh largest in the European Union. Besides, it was in Portugal that the discrepancies worsened the most between 2011 and 2016 (4.6 percentage points).
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According to Eurostat, in 2016, women continued having lower salaries than men. Estonia, Czech Republic and Germany were the countries where women workers suffered more with inequalities — their wages were 20% less than men’s. In the European Union average, those differences stood at 16.2%, with Malta registering the lowest amount out of all member states (11%). As for the Portuguese, they stood above the EU average, with a 17.5% discrepancy. Portugal stood in seventh place in the ranking of countries with the highest level of discrepancies.
However, according to data published this Wednesday there is a number that stands out: between 2011 and 2016, wage gaps increased the most in Portugal, by 4.6%. In most European Union countries, wage gaps decreased, according to Eurostat. The steepest decreases came from Romania (-4.4%9 and Hungary (-4%).