{"id":150908,"date":"2025-06-02T01:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150908\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T01:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:47:05","slug":"employment-gaps-for-women-people-with-disabilities-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150908\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment gaps for women &#038; people with disabilities &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2024, employment inequalities linked to disability, gender and origin were recorded in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU<\/a>. The gender employment gap in the EU was 10.0 <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Percentage_point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">percentage points<\/a> (pp), with an <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Employment_rate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">employment rate<\/a> of 80.8% for men and 70.8% for women. The gap was 0.2 pp lower than in 2023 and 1.1 pp lower compared with 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The gender employment gap was particularly pronounced in the foreign-born population, where the difference in employment rates reached 18.1 pp. Employment rate for foreign-born men was 83.1%, compared with 65.0% for women. Foreign-born women also experienced employment rates 15.7 pp lower than native-born women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Especially striking was the employment gap between people with and without disabilities, amounting to 24.0 pp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/b0ac57cb-c0d4-18e6-b858-6218929de279\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Employment gap, 2024. Infographic - Click below to see full dataset.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/b0ac57cb-c0d4-18e6-b858-6218929de279\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source datasets: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/4bd07205-8d36-4f8d-9dc6-21881a70369d?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hlth_dlm200<\/a>, <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/e69bba83-6e00-4a60-90ed-9e80af75628e?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sdg_05_30<\/a> and <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/9a59ebdb-7fa1-40c0-b7da-260c7f0ec79b?lang=en&amp;page=time:2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lfsa_erganedm<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">This news article marks <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eu-diversity-inclusion.campaign.europa.eu\/eu-diversity-month-2025_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU Diversity Month 2025<\/a>, which raises awareness about the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and across our societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, employment inequalities linked to disability, gender and origin were recorded in the EU. 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