{"id":12877,"date":"2023-03-09T15:43:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=12877"},"modified":"2023-03-09T15:43:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:43:19","slug":"eurostat-more-men-are-self-employed-in-the-eu-than-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=12877","title":{"rendered":"Eurostat: More Men are self-employed in the EU than Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Self-employment is higher for men than women in the European Union, with the gap widening in older age groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, Greece is the EU country in which the largest difference between men and women is recorded as a percentage of self-employed among the total number of employees. The above results from Eurostat data according to which in the third quarter of 2022, 16.1% of employed men were self-employed compared to 9.4% of women.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-18.png 600w, https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-18-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the same period, the self-employed gender gap in 15-64 year olds was largest among workers with a low level of education (8.4 percentage points), followed by those with a medium level of education (7.2 points) or high level of education (5.8 percentage points);<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This gap between self-employed men and women widened with age, with a gap of 5.7 percentage points among 25-49 year olds, rising to 9.9 percentage points for 50-64 year olds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, 21.3% of working men aged 50-64 were self-employed compared to 14.9% of men aged 25-49. Among working women aged 50-64, 11.3% were self-employed, compared to 9.2% for women aged 25-49.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on educational attainment, the gender gap for the self-employed was largest (12.4 percentage points) in the low-educated 50-64 age group, where 23.9% of employed men were self-employed compared to 11.5% of the women.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"709\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-19.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-19.png 709w, https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-19-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-19-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The difference in self-employment rates between the two sexes was smaller in the highly educated 25-49 age group (4.3 percentage points): 14.2% of employed men were self-employed, compared to 9.9% of women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The biggest gap in Greece<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At country level, the largest gender gaps in self-employment in the third quarter of 2022 were recorded in Greece (12.2 percentage points), Slovakia (11.3 percentage points) and Malta (10.6 percentage points), all with values above 10 percentage points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conversely, the smallest differences were recorded in Cyprus (1.4 percentage points), Luxembourg (2.2 percentage points) and Lithuania (3.7 percentage points).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-employment is higher for men than women in the European Union, with the gap widening in older age groups. 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