Gender Equality in Estonia: situation and challenges

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Gender Equality in Estonia situation and
challenges
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Employment rate
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Gender pay gap
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Education
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Horisontal segregation of the labour market
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Vertical segregation of the labour market
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Time use
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Challenges

• Equal opportunities on the labour market
• Reconciliation of work and family life
• Enforcement of non-discrimination regulation and
  protection of right to equal treatment
• Changing attitudes and stereotypes

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Complaints to the Gender Equality Commissioner

• Labour market
• Recruitment
• Equal pay
• Working conditions
• Young women (pregnant or with small children)

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Attitudes towards gender equality

• Family is most important aspect of life for 53
  of women and 37 of men, work for 34 of women
  and 46 of men
• 19 of women and 5 of men would quit work if
  their partner earned sufficiently for both
• 62 of women and 61 of men agree that family and
  children hinder womens career opportunities
• Existence of children would not matter in a
  hiring situation for 50 of respondents if the
  candidate was a woman and for 68 of respondents
  if the candidate was a man
• 48 of women and 46 of men think that the
  employer takes advantage of the fact that women
  with children are willing to work for pay which
  is below their work input
• 25 of women and 44 of men think that mens
  wages should be bigger than womens
• 20 of women and 25 of men think that it is
  normal that women have a double burden of work
  and family responsibilities
• 13 of women and 22 of men think that the
  partner who earns more should have a bigger say
  in family decisions

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Sources

• Eurostat (epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/)
• Statistics Estonia. Women and men (2006)
• Social sector in figures 2006 (www.sm.ee)
• Soolise võrdõiguslikkuse monitooring 2005
  (www.sm.ee)
• Praxis Center for Policy Studies. Men and Women
  in the Estonian Labour Market An Assessment of
  the Gender Pay Gap (2004, www.praxis.ee)

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