Nearly 40% of women believe that they earn less than men

According to the UCE RESEARCH study conducted for WSB Universities, 39.4 percent of women believe that men working with them in the same positions, performing the same number of hours, and having the same duties, earn more than them. In turn, 39.9 percent of the respondents have an opposite opinion. On the other hand, 20.7 percent of the respondents are not able to define it. The survey was conducted using the CAWI method on a representative sample of 1010 women aged 18-65 years.

"In Poland, we are still dealing with gender segregation in the labor market. There are male-dominated professions that give better wages, although the value of these jobs, where women dominate, should be socially assessed higher. According to a study by the European Institute of Equality, Poland is ranked 24th in the EU in terms of the Gender Equality Index, which is 12.2 points lower than the EU average, while global estimates indicate that economic equality between the sexes will only be achieved in 217 years," Urszula Nowakowska, lawyer, founder Of the Women's Rights Center Foundation, said.

Mainly women aged 18-22 (49.2 percent), with a monthly net income of over PLN 9,000, talk about wage inequality. 

(WBJ)