International Women’s Day is an internationally recognized holiday established by the United Nations to commemorate the strike of 40,000 New York seamstresses in 1908. They fought for the abolition of the ten-hour working day, against low wages and poor working conditions.
Today it is a day to honor all women.
In honor of this day we bring you some interesting info about women in Slovakia.
Currently women make up 51.1% of the population of the Slovak Republic. Since 2011 their numbers have increased by 14,630.
In 2021, the difference in hourly wages of men and women in Slovakia was 16.6%. If we wanted men's and women's monthly salaries to equalize, a woman's working week would have to last 46 hours and 38 minutes instead of the usual 40 hours. However, compared to 2019, this is an improvement of 1.8%, which in terms of the length of the working week is 1 hour and 7 minutes.
In the covid years 2020 and 2021, men's and women's wages differed from each other in only 4 EU countries, by less than 2.0%. They are Denmark, Italy, Romania and Portugal. On the contrary, the country with the fastest convergence of wages for both sexes is Latvia, where this difference decreased by 6.6% in two years. Faster convergence than in Slovakia occurred in countries where the difference is already less than 5%. Specifically in Slovenia and Poland. The first European country where women's wages are higher than men's wages is Luxembourg, although only by a negligible 0.2%. (RTVS, NBS)
