Faulting the Czech Republic over Exclusion of Women
Margot Wallström urges Czechs to narrow the gender pay gap and and elect more women
Margot Wallström, vice-president of the European Commission, called on Czechs to reduce the wage gap in their country and include more women in the political process.
- The European Court of Justice has reprimanded the Czech Republic for failing to implement two directives on the equal treatment of men and women.
- While accepting the relatively low representation of women in the Czech legislature, Wallström noted that the defense minister is a women, “and she is a role model in occupying such a post. I mean we do not see so many women as defense ministers” in the EU, though the defense minister of Spain is a woman.
- To increase the number of women in elected office, there must be political will, she noted.
- The wage gap ranges between 15% and 27% in the EU, Wallström noted, with the Czech Republic toward the bottom of that range.
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