Gender and occupational wage gaps in Romania: from planned equality to market inequality?

"In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equal opportunities and treatment f...

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Main Authors: Andrén, Daniela, Andrén, Thomas
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Bratislava 2014
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19117486124919356689-Gender-and-occupational-wage-g.htm
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Andrén, Thomas
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description "In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equal opportunities and treatment for women and men did not constitute a priority for any of the governments of the 1990s. This paper analyzes both gender and occupational wage gaps before and during the first years of transition to a market economy, and finds that the communist institutions did succeed in eliminating the gender wage differences in female- and male-dominated occupations, but not in gender-integrated occupations. During both regimes, wage differences were in general much higher among workers of the same gender working in different occupations than between women and men working in the same occupational group, and women experienced a larger variation of occupational wage differentials than men."
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equal employment opportunity
gender
sex discrimination
wage differential
gender equality
Gender and occupational wage gaps in Romania: from planned equality to market inequality?
title Gender and occupational wage gaps in Romania: from planned equality to market inequality?
topic equal employment opportunity
gender
sex discrimination
wage differential
gender equality
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19117486124919356689-Gender-and-occupational-wage-g.htm