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Ženy a mzdová diskriminace
[Women and wage discrimination]

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  • Zuzana Dvořáková

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A contractual concept of wages has been introduced by the latest amendment of labor law in the Czech Republic. Preparations for EU accession require that the wage and salary act shall emphasize the principle of identical wage for work of identical value. The inequality of men and women with respect to their remuneration is determined by noneconomic factors. Women are predetermined by their education to segregation to lower-wage jobs. Currently, the women's share in labor force at productive age is approximately 43 %. Women with primary education account for about 16 %, those with secondary education for 75 % and with university-level education for 8.5 %. Women mainly do less qualified administrative work, they work in operations in the service sector and outlet network, and do auxiliary unqualified work. Wage analysis on the basis of a sample survey documents that the average women's wage in 1997 made 76 % of the men's wage. The largest differences exist in women-employees not included in wage tariff classification (71) and with nontariff remuneration (70). Wages of women working in the nonbusiness sector are higher than those of women working in the business sector. But their from-year-to-year increase is slower. The gender differences in wages are expected to be augmented as a result of unfinished transformation and stagnation.

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  • Zuzana Dvořáková, 1999. "Ženy a mzdová diskriminace [Women and wage discrimination]," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 1999(1).
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlpol:v:1999:y:1999:i:1:id:4
    DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.4
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