Sometimes you come across counterintuitive facts that make you step back and wonder if everything you thought you knew was wrong, like America spending more per capita on healthcare than Britain or Stephanie Flanders not being head girl at school or Italy being the first country to eliminate its full-time gender pay gap.
Yes, that’s right, Italy. Not Finland, not Denmark, not some other bastion of female friendly social democracy but Italy.
Gender pay gap by working profile, %, 2011
At least, that’s what the latest EuroStat data says.
For full-time workers pay gaps varied widely in the EU, by 20 percentage points, between the highest ones observed in Slovakia and Germany (20 %) and the lowest pay gap, actually no pay gap at all, in Italy (0 %).
So mind-blowing was this that I decided to check out the OECD’s figures for a second opinion. These show Italy having a slight gender…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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