TAIPEI: The gender wage gap in Taiwan has narrowed over the past decade, while the number of Taiwanese women engaged in atypical employment relative to the overall workforce has fallen over the past five years, according to a government report published Thursday.
In 2016, women’s average gross earnings were 32.9 percent below those of men, based on the European Union definition, a fall of 8.2 percentage points from 2006, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics’ (DGBAS) 2018 Gender at a Glance statistical report showed.
The number of atypical workers in May 2017 reached 805,000, accounting for 7.1 percent of the total workforce and representing an increase of 69,000, or 9.4 percent compared with the same month in 2012.
Overall, the number of male atypical workers stood at 427,000, accounting for 6.8 percent of the total male workforce, while the number of female atypical employees was 378,000, or 7.5 percent of the total female workforce.
