Slovak women paid less than Slovak men

On Friday, the salary-oriented website platy.sk published an analysis showing that even when a woman and a man hold the same jobs in the same company, they earn unequal salaries. As it established, women in Slovakia earn less by 9 percent. The analysis revealed that women often maintain lower salary expectations than men, which manifests itself already during job interviews. In many cases, women ask for less money than the opposite sex. The overall gap between the salaries of men and women runs even deeper, with the latter earning less by almost 20 percent. This is mostly due to the fact that professions dominated by women in Slovakia are paid worse than those dominated by their male counterparts. Whereas the fields with the largest proportion of females on the profesia.sk website are health and social work, men are most represented in electrical engineering and energy. A similar situation also prevails in Hungary and the Czech Republic. Another factor that significantly influences the professional lives of women is maternity leave. Although in some European countries fathers take leave from work for some time instead of mothers following the birth of a child, this is not common in Slovakia, which strongly contributes toward the disparity in salaries. While women take maternity leave and spend months or years out of work, their male counterparts work continuously, often experiencing career developments concomitant with salary growth.
According to international Paylab Data Research, mothers with small children enjoy the most open access to workplaces in Finland and Croatia. Out of the nine monitored countries, Slovakia stands at other end of the spectrum, as it is Slovakia and the Czech Republic where employees encounter the smallest degree of work interaction with mothers.