Two decades of measurements have not been enough to break the glass ceiling in Spanish companies, according to the 20th edition of the report. Gender pay gap and women's presence in management positions 2026According to a study presented by ICSA Grupo and EADA Business School, senior management remains a predominantly male domain. Although female representation has increased from 16.9% in 2006 to the current 18.6%, economic inequality persists and has even worsened at the highest levels of responsibility. The most striking conclusion of the study, based on 80,000 salary data points, is that a female executive must work 47 more days per year to earn the same salary as her male counterpart. Over the past 20 years, the gap at the top of organizations has grown from 8.5% to the current 13%. This trend contrasts sharply with the entry-level employee category, the only one where the salary difference has decreased during this period, now standing at 9.8%. "The debate is no longer solely about access, but about how power is recognized economically," notes Dr. Aline Masuda, a researcher at EADA. The report highlights a paradox: while women now make up the majority of executive education students (51.6% in the current course), this talent does not translate into equivalent pay as they climb the corporate ladder.

The wage gap between native-born and immigrant workers, caused primarily by the latter's difficulty accessing better-paid professions, is a constant worldwide. In the major European and American economies, where the highest-income countries are located, immigrants earn an average of 18% less than local workers. This figure is even more pronounced in the case of Spain, which leads the statistics with a difference of 29%.

For many women, reaching retirement age does not mean, as it should, a well-deserved rest after decades of work, but rather the entry into a new stage of economic insecurity. Our pension system is, in essence, contributory: it is paid based on contributions. This means that if their work histories have been short, discontinuous, or with low wages, the pension will be lower. And this is precisely the case for many women who are currently over 65.

I read the letter published by Quim Morales completely denying the comedian Carlota Palà (Charlie Pee) in Critical (who accused him of sexual and workplace abuse). Regarding workplace treatment, she says that at the beginning of the season she "realized" that another employee was being paid more for the same work. Morales clarifies that, "the months that Joel Díaz reduced his participation in the program, the €600 per month in which his remuneration was reduced was distributed equally among the three collaborators of the program, at the rate of €200 per month. So, although Mrs. Palà earned more than one of these colleagues (5 the same amount as the other collaborators, Mr. Xavier Pérez Esquerdo and Mr. Jordi Ramoneda.

Catalonia has the fifth worst figure in the State for the gender pay gap, with 19.5%, exceeding the national average of 17%, according to a study by the Women's Institute. Men earn an average annual profit of 29,381.84 euros, while women earn 24,359.82 euros, a difference of 5,022.02 euros.

The real inequality in the salaries of men and women has only been reduced by 200 euros since 2008, according to reports published by UGT and CCOO of Catalonia this Friday, which mark the wage gap at 19.51% for the first of the unions and 24.2% for the second. The data used are from 2022, from the Salary Structure Survey of the National Institute of Statistics (INE), and state that men earn 6,200 euros more than women per year, a figure that has been reduced since 2014, but has remained above 6,000 euros. Currently, the Catalan difference is higher than the Spanish one by 1,200 euros.

Yesterday there were demonstrations in Catalonia and all over the world to mark International Women's Day, and the thousands who took to the streets protested in a festive atmosphere. They made demands that have been dragging on for years and will not be settled overnight. In the run up, the Catalan and Spanish governments have put in place some measures that show to what extent discrimination against women is so deep-rooted that sometimes it is difficult even to identify it. This is the case, for example, of the initiative by the Department of Equality to encourage the Catalan Consumer Agency to inspect fashion stores to ensure that they comply with European regulations on sizes. The idea is, on the one hand, to ensure that sizes meet standards set by European regulations, avoiding a size L which is actually an S or an M, with the frustration that this causes. But also to avoid chains that only sell sizes XS or S, which in reality are an almost childish size sold for mature women. It seems an anecdotal issue, but this aesthetic pressure is of paramount importance in the fight against eating disorders and also psychological disorders and in the way women, especially teenagers, perceive their bodies.

More unemployment, more temporary employment, more inactivity when forming a family, more precarious jobs and fewer top jobs. These are half of the items that make up the ten-point list trade union UGT has drawn up looking at women's job situation in Catalonia. As it stands, 2022 is still far from achieving gender equality.

The gender gap has narrowed by about two points compared to 2018, to 22.64% in 2019, according to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) interpreted by union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO). But as the study made by the union points out, the differences between young people have widened even more: female workers under 18 have gone from being paid 19.4% less than male workers in 2010 to 34.8% less in 2020, and those between 18 and 25, from 11.5% to 13.6% in the same period, according to data from the State Agency of Tax Administration.

Thirty years is what it would take at the current rate to eliminate the wage gap between men and women. The conclusion comes from a study by Comisiones Obreras presented last summer, which uses 2018 data from INE and Idescat. Another figure, in this case from Eurostat, confirms wage discrimination between genders: women workers earn 14.8% less per hour than men who do the same job in the European Union. And yet a third piece of information now from the Bank of Spain: when they have a child, men keep their salaries, while women's salaries go down by 11% that same year and by 28% over the course of a decade. In Catalonia, moreover, women earn 22.2% less on average than men

If a year ago the unemployment rate among women was 10.9% in Catalonia, now the figure is four points higher (14.9%). If this same year the unemployment rate among men was 9.9%, now it is less than three points higher (12.8%). If then the gap between the two indicators managed to narrow a few tenths, now it has widened again by two points. "Women have been more affected than men by the adverse consequences of the pandemic on the labour market", summarizes a report by the International Labour Organization (ILO). "The impact of the pandemic on the labour market has a woman's name", agrees the CCOO syndicate.