In Serbia, women are more numerous and more educated than men, but they also have 8.8 percent lower salaries than them, according to the data of the Republic Bureau of Statistics published in the book “Women and Men in Serbia 2020”.
There are 180,000 more women in Serbia than men, they live on average five years longer, but they also find it harder to get a job and get fired more easily.
Women make up the majority in lower-paid professions such as health, education, social protection, occupy only a third of managerial positions, and own only a quarter of real estate.
The research also showed that almost twice as many men as women die between the ages of 30 and 59, mostly from circulatory diseases and tumors, and that in 2019 they died four times more often in traffic accidents, three times more often decided to commit suicide and were “incomparably” more often victims or perpetrators of crimes, Srbija Danas reports.
