The number of women seeking jobs with high education degrees in Kosovo is higher than the number of men.
According to the data of the Statistics Agency job seekers with bachelor and master level in December 2020 totaled 7,557 women, while with the same level of education were 4,370 men.
Despite this fact, women’s employment is at a lower level, Radio Free Europe writes.
The official data shows that the employment rate of women in Kosovo is 14.4 percent, while employment of men with 46.2 percent. The unemployment rate in Kosovo is about 30 percent, and every year up to 25,000 people enter the labor market in Kosovo.
Luljeta Demolli, executive director at the Kosovo Center for Gender Studies, told Radio Free Europe that based on research, a woman in Kosovo can wait up to eight years to be employed.
According to her, women find it more difficult to find to be employed, as they are looking for a safer job where the Law on Maternity Leave is respected and where salaries are more dignified.
“Young women are interested in graduating, preparing for work, but difficulties arise when they are looking for work in the public or private sector. For men is easier because the professions that are required are still those where men are required more,” Demolli says.
Also, Demollli adds that there are women who are more educated than men and can find work more easily, but have no connection with political parties, because, as she says, “currently in Kosovo political parties employ citizens.”
She also points out that the education system is not adapted to the work system for women and men in Kosovo, so a parent must sacrifice and stay at home.
The number of employees in the public sector in Kosovo is over 83 thousand.
The average net salary of most employees according to Kosovo Statistics Agency, is between EUR 400 and EUR 500 per month. From the average of this monthly payment, gender differences were noticed with 0.1 percent higher in men than in women.
