{"id":271495,"date":"2016-03-07T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T11:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=271495"},"modified":"2016-03-07T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T11:36:43","slug":"gender-wage-gap-in-armenia-nearly-36-un-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/03\/07\/gender-wage-gap-in-armenia-nearly-36-un-study-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Gender Wage Gap in Armenia Nearly 36%, UN Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">In Armenia, women earn 35.9% less than what men are paid, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Armenia Assistant Representative Garik Hayrapetyan said at a press conference Monday, when presenting the results of UNFPA&#39;s &ldquo;Diagnostic Study on Discrimination Against Women in Armenia 2015-2016.&rdquo; Meanwhile, according to the study, in European Union member countries, there is a gender wage gap of 15.9 percent.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRestrictions on women&#39;s work, which, as stated by the official, are also prevalent in Armenia, cause Armenia&#39;s GDP a yearly damage of $50-60 million.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Women are involved in areas &ndash; mainly non-competitive fields &#8211; where wages are lower than [national] average. They work mostly in the fields of agriculture, education, health, and culture. In the financial sector, where wages are relatively high, jobs are mostly held by men,&rdquo; independent expert Nvard Manasyan said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlthough, she added, 60% of government employees are women, they occupy only lower-level positions, and 90% of senior positions are held by men. &ldquo;Therefore, women are not well represented at decision-making levels.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions on women&#8217;s work, which, as stated by the official, are also prevalent in Armenia, cause Armenia&#8217;s GDP a yearly damage of $50-60 million&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64131,63205,64133,15655,64132,18451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}