The survey, released last week, showed that women in this country working full-time jobs earned on average just 78% of what their male peers earned in 2015, making it the fourth-widest gap among 15 countries surveyed. The average for countries belonging to the OECD – the club including most of the world’s wealthiest economies – was 86%.
For the countries that had made the most progress toward gender equality on pay, the gap was nearly nonexistent. In Belgium, women earned 97% on average of what men earned, in Slovenia 95% and in New Zealand 94%. On the other hand, Israeli women were earning close to their American sisters’ 81% and were ahead of Japan’s 74%. [...]
The stagnation in progress toward wage equality isn’t unique to Israel, though. Only a small number of countries succeeded in reducing it, among them Ireland and Mexico. For most it remained unchanged and in a few, such as Switzerland, Japan and Brazil, the gap even widened. [...]
While Israeli women earn relatively little compared to Israeli men, their rates of education are now higher. In 2014, 19.5% more women complete high school than men, much wider that the 11.9% gender gap on average for OECD countries. Women account for 59.5% of all Israelis awarded bachelor’s degrees, compared with 58.2% on average for the OECD. At the Ph.D. level, women make up 49.8% of the degrees granted in Israel, compared with 47.4% across the OECD. [...]
In the political sphere, Israeli women are also faring poorly. They account for just 26.7% of all members of the Knesset, under the average of OECD legislators of 28.7%. Iceland, which has the most gender-balanced parliament, is close to 50-50 while in Finland and Mexico, 45% of the legislators are female.
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