Postsocijalističke promene položaja žena na tržištu rada u Srbiji
Post-Socialist Changes and Gender Position on the Labor Market in Serbia

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines gender dif erences and the level of employment, as well as other important characteristics of women’s economic participation in the changed environment of the post-socialist transition period in Serbia. The presented facts point out to unfavorable position of women in the labor market, characterized by low economic activity, limited access to managerial position and prestige wages, high unemployment, poverty and vulnerability. Although women’s level of education is higher than that of men, women still fail to ensure quality jobs and successful professional careers to the same extent as men. Regarding that aspect, women in Serbia share experience of women in other post-socialist countries, though it must be noted that women earn less than men even in the most developed countries of the European Union. Traditional female jobs lose the race in the market where jobs are still gender-specific. New tensions lead to two-fold vulnerability of women - at work and at home.

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