18% in favor of men: Zelenska spoke about the wage gap at the UN General Assembly
Despite the war, Ukraine continues to work on overcoming gender inequality, in particular in pay. As of 2021, the difference was 18% in favor of men. Olena Zelenska announced this during her speech at the 78th session of the UN General Assembly. “Usually, development dies in war first. Survival remains. But not in our case. Ukraine made a principled decision – to develop and improve despite the war. Last Friday, the Ukrainian government approved the National Strategy for overcoming the gender pay gap in Ukraine until 2030.” , she said. As Zelenska noted, in Ukraine there are more women with higher education than men – 47% and 36%, respectively. However, wage inequality remains. Olena Zelenska during a speech at the UN General Assembly. Photo: Office of the President In 2015, it was 26% in favor of men. Instead, in 2021, the gap was reduced to 18%. According to the first lady, this was facilitated by the adoption of the “Biarritz Partnership” – an international initiative of equal rights and opportunities. For comparison, the average gender pay gap in the EU is 13%. Giving justice to Ukrainian women is a moral duty of the state, Zelenska emphasized. After all, with the beginning of the war, they took on the burden in all spheres of life. “These are not only forced migrants who take children and elderly relatives to safe places. These are doctors, because most of them are women. The teachers who continue to teach children are mostly women. We have a very powerful volunteer movement, most of its activists are also women. Service in the army, although it is voluntary for women, but there are more and more women there – 60 thousand,” she emphasized. We will remind you that earlier we wrote that it will take another 300 years to achieve gender equality around the world. Read also: Gender discrimination of women, and could everything be the other way around. Opinions of 4 experts
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