Considerably more women are nowadays involved in working life: during the almost 30 years from 1991 to 2019, the economic activity rate of 25 to 39 year old women rose from 72% to 88%, that of 55 to 64 year old women even from 44% to 69%.
According to the analyses, based on the mean, the unexplained share in the gender pay gap for 2016 was 42.9% in the private sector and 34.8% in the public sector. In 2012, the corresponding shares were 40.9% and 38.8%.
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