The gender time gap

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The gender time gap - the between men and women’s to the labour market in terms of working time - shows that in the EU27 there is a much higher of women than men working part time (29% and 7% respectively). Working part time has significant on pay. Between 70% and 80% of employees working part time into the low-pay category. However, within the of part-time workers, the distribution of low pay is quite between men and women.
When looking at the in pay between men and women in full-time jobs, a similar emerges: overall, men tend to be at the upper end of the income distribution and there are roughly twice as many women than men among those on low pay.
While more women than men to work part time, there are as many men as women working hours. According to the fourth European Working Conditions Survey, 14.9% of EU27 employees work more than 48 hours a week. When the gender difference in terms of working long hours, 20% of all workers work long hours as to 8.5% of all employees.