Belgium performs poorly on women in management positions
Ahead of International Women’s Day, Eurostat has published a report on the number of management roles in the EU held by women, and Belgium does not score at the top
Better on pay gap
Across the EU, 35.5% of the 7.3 million management positions are filled by women. In Belgium, the number is just over 23%. That puts Belgium ahead of only Cyprus (21.6%), Italy (22%), Germany (22.3%) and Austria (23%). Latvia leads the table and is the only country where women managers are in the majority at nearly 53%.
Belgium does better when it comes to the pay gap: Women managers earn an average 13.6% less than their male counterparts, compared to an EU average of 23.4%. Only Slovenia (12.4%) and Romania (5%) do better.
Eurostat stressed, however, that the pay gap is created by a number of different social and economic factors, and that reducing it is not simply a matter of equal pay for equal work.
Photo: Ingimage
