In line with the vice prime minister’s statements, women in Russia earn 26% less than men do on equivalent jobs. Olga Golodets (vice prime minister) runs a National Women Board, a plan expected to last until 2022.
She entrusts that, by that time, the gender pay gap will have been reduced, although she didn’t say how much. Golodets admitted that Russia is behind the rest of Europe in terms of equality, as a male with the same jobs as a female earns 10.000 more rubles than her.
Golodets specified that it is the executive power where women are not represented, whereas most parts of the education and sanitary systems are occupied by female workers. in fact, Olga is one of the three women that take part in the Government.
In her words, “Russia is the 100th country in the world with most women on the Duma, 15%, while only 17% of the Senate is female”. According to a Rosstat study, Russian gender pay gap reaches 30%.
None of the opposition parties has proposed a better plan to reach equality, and it seems only groups outside the Parliament are concerned about this issue.
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