Male employment dominates two of the three highest-paid economic activities - information creation and dissemination and extractive industries.

Violeta Ivanova, deputy director of the Institute for Social and Trade Union Studies at the National Security Agency, said this to BNR.

"On the other pole - in the three lowest paid activities, women receive 28% lower wages than men, and they dominate as employment in them - hotel and restaurant business. That is, in leadership positions in these economic activities, they are primarily the men". 

KNSB: In some fields, women receive 30 percent lower salaries than men

She emphasized that there are highly feminized industries in Bulgaria, where salaries are significantly lower compared to industries where men predominate.

Ivanova emphasized that the percentage (12.6%) by which women's salaries are lower than men's is close to the European indicator for this:

"These are the average levels, however, and in a number of branches these differences reach 30%, as in "Finance and Insurance", and in "Human Health and Social Work" the pay of women is 24% lower, in "Culture , sports and entertainment" is by 20%".  

There are areas where the pay gap is overwhelming for women - this is the case in construction, where they receive 16% more than men, but women there perform high-skilled work, while low-skilled work is performed by men. 

Lower remuneration for women also leads to the formation of lower pensions, which are about 20% below those of men.

You can listen to the interview of Maria Kostova with Violeta Ivanova in the program "Nescho more" from the sound file.

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March 8th