Poland gender pay gap among lowest in the EU - Eurostat

The difference between the average pay of men and women in Poland is 7.7 percent, which is one of the best results in the European Union, according to Eurostat. Poland is in sixth place when it comes to gender pay parity. Only Romania, Luxembourg, Italy, Belgium, and Slovenia do better. At the opposite end of the spectrum is Estonia, where the pay gap is 28 percent. Just behind Estonia are several richer countries usually associated with the equality of women. In Germany, Austria, and the UK, men earn around 20 percent more than women, while in France and Sweden the figures are 15.5 percent and 13.8 percent respectively. However, Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS) finds that the gender pay gap in Poland is 17 percent, while the World Bank’s “Gender Gap” report published a few days ago ranks Poland only in 51^st place out of 145 in terms of treatment of women in the labor market.