Løntransparensdirektivet betragtning 15

English language version pr. 2026-10-06 tier 3 Direktiv (EU) 2023/970, CELEX 32023L0970

The Union gender pay gap persists: it stood at 13 % in 2020, with significant variations across Member States, and has decreased only minimally over the last ten years. The gender pay gap is caused by various factors, such as gender stereotypes, the perpetuation of the ‘glass ceiling’ and the ‘sticky floor’, horizontal segregation, including the overrepresentation of women in low-paid service jobs, and unequal sharing of care responsibilities. In addition, the gender pay gap is partly caused by direct and indirect gender-based pay discrimination. All those elements constitute structural obstacles that form complex challenges to achieving good quality jobs and equal pay for equal work or work of equal value and have long-term consequences such as a pension gap and the feminisation of poverty.