Maltese women earn €12 less for every €100 earned by men, Eurostat data shows

Malta's gender pay gap for hourly earnings is better than EU average but women still earn €12 less for every €100 earned by men

8 March 2021, 6:05pm
by Laura Calleja

The share of women in employment has increased over the past few years but still remains low when compared to the number of men in employment

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Women earn 11.6% less than men when average gross hourly earnings are compared, figures released today by Eurostat show.

This means that for every €100 earned by men, women earn €88.

However large the gap is, the situation in Malta is better than the EU average of 14.1%.

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Posted by Eurostat on Monday, March 8, 2021

The highest differences were observed in Estonia with 21.7%, followed by Austria with 20% and Germany with 19.2%, according to the EU statistics agency.

Eurostat also said the employment rate in Malta for women was 65.8%, to men's 86.5%.

Population statistics showed that women made up 48% of the population in Malta.

Laura Calleja is features editor at MaltaToday