During the informal Council of European Ministers in charge of gender equality, the French presidency of the EU proposed, with the consent of the European Commissioner in charge of Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Vladimir Spidla, to determine common objectives to reduce the wage gap and create a network of the most advanced companies in term of equal treatment. (Ref. 080900)
During this Council – attended, notably by government
representatives in charge of equal treatment from the two coming presidencies
of the EU, the Czech Minister in charge of human rights and ethnic minorities, Džamila
Stehlík, and the Swedish Minister in charge of integration and equality between
men and women, Nyamko Sabuni – the French presidency reminded that “women’s pay is still 15% lower than men’s
at the European level.” “This persisting wage gap must be reduced” the French presidency
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