The sector has a relatively low wage levels, and it is characterized by a high proportion of women

On average, women earn 85 million for each 100-patch bamboo earings men earn. This pay gap has remained stable over the past decade. Wage differences are greatest in the private sector and among those with the highest education.
Compared to the rest of Europe, according to figures bamboo earings from 2007 show that wage differentials between women and men in Norway is slightly less than the average in EU countries. On average, women earned in the EU 83 per cent of men in 20007.
Our neighboring countries are also wage gap slightly larger than in Norway. In Denmark and Sweden, women earned 82 percent of men, whereas in Finland earned only 80 percent of men in 2007.
There are structural differences in wages between women and men. Both women and men have had a steady growth, without the women approached men's wages.
- Gender division manifests itself along two dimensions; women have the second position types than men and work in other industries, says senior Agnes Aaby Hirsch in SSB.
- If one looks at the public and private sectors separately, we find that the wage gap is greater in the private sector, and it is also where you will find most workers, says Aaby Hirsch.
In the private sector, women's percentage of men at 83.5 percent in 2008, compared to 88.4 per cent in the public sector. In the private sector, women's share of men's wages increased slightly, from 82.6 in 1997 to 83.5 today.
For the public sector, the percentage increased from 87.5 to 88.4 today. When it comes to public sector wage gap is smaller in the state than in municipalities. The municipal sector is characterized by a higher proportion of women than in the state.
If one only looks at developments over the last four years, women's share of men's wages increased more in the public sector than in the private sector, from 87.2 (2004) to 88.4 (2008), while it was 83.5 in both year among employees in the private sector.
The majority of all employees (71.5 percent in 2008) are employed in the private sector. Women's percentage of men among all employees follow therefore mainly developments in the private sector.
In the private sector there are major differences from industry to industry and overall a greater wage dispersion than in the public sector. In the financial sector, where the average wage level is relatively high, women earn at least compared to men.
Here, women's wages relative to men's wages declined in recent years. In 1997, women earned 73.4 percent of what men earned per month in this industry, while the percentage dropped to 65.3 percent in 2008.
The sector has a relatively low wage levels, and it is characterized by a high proportion of women and many part-time employees. In this industry, women's share of the men's 80.5 percent, up from 78.3 in 1997.
If we disregard the construction industry, which has few female employees, is among teaching staff in school we can at least pay differentials (93.2 in 1997 to 96 percent in 2008). Two thirds of the teaching staff are women.
- Female managers in the private sector earned only 78 percent of male managers. Of all the leaders, two of the three men, while four of the five top leaders are men. If we only look at CEOs, women's share of men's wages even lower than general managers, 72.6 percent, said Aaby Hirsch.
In professions in the private sector with a lower salary, an office and customer service occupations, there are virtually no differences in wage levels. Women earned 98.8 percent of what men did in these occupations in 2008.
For those who work in sales, service and care, another profession in the private sector bamboo earings with a relatively low wages, women's wages relative to men's wages at 86.4 percent in 2008.
- Looking at the part-time employees separately, women's share of men's wages far higher than for full-time employees at 95.2 percent. bamboo earings The corresponding figure for full-time employees was 86.6 percent, says Aaby Hirsch.
Some of the difference can be explained by the fact that part-time employees distributed in different ways between occupational groups in terms of full-time employees. Part-time employees men are generally a low-paid group, many, perhaps students with extra work.
Among employees with primary level education, women earned on average 89.3 percent of men's wages, while the corresponding figure for those with lower level's tertiary education (up to four years) was 79.0 percent.
- A forklari

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