Portugal is the 4th EU country where women are most precarious
As they are disclosed and given by women in Portugal, the data released by PORDATA is more accurate. Among 27 European Union states, Portugal occupies the fourth position, ex-aequo with Cyprus, “where there are more women with temporary contracts”, reads the statement sent to newsrooms to mark Mother’s Day and of the Worker. There are two ten, in advance, and one in five Portuguese women is considered poor or in an almost social exclusion zone.
Women continue to be the most vulnerable population, the data revealed by the population. Women represent 20.2% of the population at risk of poverty or social exclusion. In 2020, the total population in this situation was 19.8%.
Poverty affects as single parents, especially that 25% of these families are poor and almost nine out of ten of these households the adult is a woman, equivalent to 85.4%.
Women also dominate the beneficiaries of RSI – Social Insertion Income. Of the 2 beneficiaries27 women, out of 20 844 are 20 women, 133 410 are 52% of the total.
We get less for the same functions
Although the unemployment rate of women with higher education is lower (4.9%) than that of men (5.9%), women receive, on average, 220 euros less than men for performing the same functions. .
The salary disparity is more glaring among employees with higher education, where women “earn 700 euros that teaching and less men 326 euros among professionals are highly discreet”, reads the communicator.
In unemployment, the statistics are no longer encouraging. More than half of the registered employed women (57%) and they are also the ones who benefit most from social unemployment and unemployment, 56% and 61%, respectively.