Women, regardless of job creation in Catalonia and growing wage gap – Yahoo Finance Spain

Barcelona, ​​March 7 (EFE) .- The economic recovery and job creation in Catalonia is setting aside for women who have a higher unemployment rate and are most affected by bias in the contracts, while growing wage gap and it is they who continue to bear the weight of conciliation.

This is the radiograph of the labor market in Catalonia that emerges from the reports prepared by the CCOO and UGT of Catalonia unions face holding morning Women’s Day and presented today in separate press conferences.

the feminization of unemployment is reflected in the rate unemployment, which is 16.5% among men and 19.1% among women, according to data from the EPA, which is an improvement between male gender, benefiting from the recovery to the detriment of women .

Meanwhile, the inactivity rate grows over the years between the female gender and stands and 11 points higher than the male.

the childcare and of sick adults, which continues to fall on women very mainstream way, and cuts in the welfare state in recent years explain to continue to grow the inactivity rate among women, denounced the unions.

in addition to being more affected by unemployment, women workers have more partial contracts, both in the public sector (where majority for women) and private, where it is 25.7% compared with 9% for men.

“job creation in recent years has not benefited women. Almost all employment created is male “warned David Papiol, Secretary of Social Movements and Equal UGT of Catalonia.

Meanwhile, Alba Garcia, secretary of Women and Social Cohesion CCOO Catalonia, stressed that “there are women who renounce even the possibility of entering the labor market. Very often, to devote to parenting and family care. “

The wage gap between men and women has grown back and the difference of gross wages and reaches only 25.1% it tends to equalize when it comes to sectors with lower incomes.

wage distance also increases with age, since men tend to see grow their salaries over the years, unlike women.

Although the number of women who charge contributory pensions, the gap increases also in economic performance and the men charged half twice than women, says CCOO.

in the field of family reconciliation, it continues to take the face of a woman to the point that the employment rate of men increased 4.5 percentage points to 78.9% when they have children and low in July , 4 points to 59.5% for women in the same circumstances.

in addition, 96.6% of the exceedances to take care of children’s exercise women, a percentage that has not changed ten years, as highlighted in the report of UGT.

the need to reconcile also explains that seven out of 10 part-time contracts are signed by women.

the two unions have stressed the need to break stereotypes and assigning roles in school, family and work, in addition to requiring the deployment of the Equality Act of Catalonia, which was adopted at the last plenary session of the previous legislature.

UGT has claimed that the figure of the delegate of equality in enterprises is implemented, under the Act, while CCOO urged the Government to take into account the gender perspective in the active employment policies and career guidance .