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European Commissions take on gender equaltiy and how important it is to establish this.
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Women are still paid 15 % less than men for every hour worked on average.
In the private sector women in 2002 earned on average 25 % less than men, according to the
Group of experts on Gender, Social Inclusion and Employment, which has recently published
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Not surprisingly, important gender gaps disadvantaging women remain in the labour
market. However the rate of female employment is growing steadily, even faster than that of
men and stood at 56.3 % in 2005. If this development continues, the Lisbon objective of 60 %
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While women comprise roughly 46 per cent of all employees in Australia,[2] they take home on average $283.20 less than men each week (full-time adult ordinary time earnings)
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The Guideline for Gender performance and reporting.
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Virginija Langbakk, director of the Vilnius-based European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), says women are not the only ones who suffer as a result of gender inequality. Men lose out, too, when, due to stereotypes, they are expected to work longer hours and are given less personal and family time.
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In the top 500 films in Hollywood between 2007 – 2012, only 30% of speaking characters are women, 28.8% of women wore sexually revealing clothes (as opposed to 7% of men!), 26.2% of women get partially naked (while only 9.4% of men do the same) and a measly 10.7% of movies feature a balanced cast where there are an equal number of men and women
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Iceland has a gender gap of 0.859 where the highest you can score is 1,
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men at 82.7% and women at 77.1%
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