Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2024 All Rights Reserved

Pay gap between men and women in Bulgaria is 13.5%.

Photo: Ani Petrova, BNR

Despite the huge progress marked in recent decades, full gender equality in Bulgaria is not yet a reality. The pay gap between men and women in the country is 13.5%. Moreover, only 25% of the MPs in Bulgaria’s National Assembly are women. There are 360,000 single mothers in Bulgaria. 72% them and their children live on or below the poverty line, noted the Bulgarian Fund for Women on the eve of the International Women's Day - March 8.

The day will be marked with 20 initiatives across Bulgaria. The initiatives are supported by the Bulgarian Fund for Women, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Sofia and the Embassy of Switzerland in Bulgaria, the Bulgarian National Radio’s reporter Gergana Hrischeva informed.




Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

DSB discuss the names of prime ministers for technical cabinet

The leader of "Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria" (DSB), Atanas Atanasov, has told BNT that a single body should be created in "We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria", which is to discuss all issues and make common decisions in..

published on 7/9/24 11:41 AM

The number of believers has decreased by 9 percent for 10 years

Bulgaria ranks last in the EU with just 12 priests per 100,000 people. There are more than 8,000 churches and monasteries in the country, or 10 times more temples than clergy, according to the latest national census of 2021. 51.4%..

published on 7/9/24 10:39 AM
Hristijan Mickoski

Government in Skopje wants denunciation of the treaty with Bulgaria

North Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that the rights of Bulgarians in North Macedonia were respected, but the same could not be said about the "Macedonian minority" in Bulgaria, BGNES reports. At a meeting at Johns..

published on 7/9/24 9:40 AM