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"In 2010, in the EU, employment in the service sector accounted for 69.4% of all jobs, and 83.1% of the female workforce is employed in the service sector compared with 58.1% of the male workforce.
Despite numerous legal initiatives undertaken by the EU to pursue the goal of equal pay for men and women, the gap remains and progress is extremely slow. In the EU, women earn about 17.1% less than their male colleagues, although the gender pay gap ranges between 3.2% and 30.9% in the Member States.
An even less comforting figure is that the rise in the educational level of women has not always been matched by them moving up the hierarchy at work or by an improvement in their conditions of employment. In view of this situation, it is estimated that it would take over 40 years to reach any significant gender balance in the labour market.
Bearing this in mind, I see the need for Member States to adopt appropriate policies allowing a balance to be found between personal, work and family life and, not least, child care services compatible with the flexible working hours which, according to recent studies, are gradually being imposed in the service sector."@en1
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