What Can we Learn from Malta? An Exploration of Gender Disparities in Education, Work and Money in Europe

This chapter examines the evolution of gender inequality in the domains of education, work and income across European Union Member States from 2010 to 2021, employing temporal trajectory analysis to identify trends and shifts over time. It introduces and discusses the gender gap in education, work and financial resources. The labor market reflects gender disparities, including differences in employment opportunities, remuneration and career progression between men and women. The chapter describes the Gender Equality Index. The structure of the conceptual framework of the Gender Equality Index consists of eight domains, the first six (work, money, knowledge, time, power, health) being combined into a core index and an additional two satellite domains (intersecting inequalities and violence). The chapter presents the methodology used for dynamic analysis of trajectories. It shows the results of the principal component analysis, while the trajectory analysis containing the main evidence.