More than half of the gender pay gap in the grand duchy is attributed to a difference in hours spent working. Meanwhile 40% of the disparity is credited to a difference in employment rates between men and women which in Luxembourg is estimated at 6.5%. The average for the euro area is 10%.

An improvement is needed in Luxembourg regarding part-time work, a position in which women find themselves much more often (+25%) than men. In this criterion, the country ranks 15^th among the 19 countries analysed in the study. In the Netherlands, women are nearly 50% more likely to work part-time than men.

Family reasons and taking care of adults with disabilities or children are the reasons cited by more than half of women who work part-time. Meanwhile 30% of men point towards such tasks as the cause for their partial employment.

Men (17%) were three times more likely to cite education or training as the reason for working part time compared to women (6%).

Therefore women spend more time doing unpaid work (such as taking care of family members) instead of paid work compared to men. Women in Luxembourg worked on average almost 25 hours per month less than men in 2020.

“Although all the differences--in hourly wages, in employment rates, in the proportion of part-time employment--have narrowed down over the years, it must be said that Luxembourg still has a long way to go before it can claim equality between women and men in the labour market,” states the study.