Without looking, can you guess which EU country has the lowest gender pay gap?
I put this question out earlier on Twitter and most people suggested the Netherlands or one of the Scandinavian countries; a reasonable assumption given yesterday’s news from the World Economic Forum (WEF). A good call but wrong. All of the Nordic countries have gender pay gaps higher than the EU average, while the country with the lowest pay gap is……
Italy! Yes, that’s right, Italy, closely followed by Malta.
As this graph, based on 2007 data (which is the most recent I could find), shows, in Italy and Malta, the gap between male and female earnings is only around 5 percent. The Scandinavian countries, despite all their efforts to help women return to work, still have gender pay gaps of around 18 percent.
So how come Denmark, Sweden and Finland, all in the top ten on the
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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