The women of UAE have shown a strong presence across sectors comprising 64 percent of workers in education with a similar percentage of doctors, nurses and technicians working in the health sectors.
The women also comprise 31 percent of the total workers in the finance, banking and insurance activities. The country was ranked 18-th globally and 1-st regionally in the Gender Inequality Index (GII) of the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report 2020.
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The UAE also joined several countries worldwide in celebrating International Equal Pay Day today.
Ranked first across the Arab world in the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report for 2021, the UAE also figured first globally in four of the report’s indicators of participation of women in parliament, gender ratio at birth, literacy rate, and enrolment in primary education.
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As per the UAE labor law, all female employees shall receive wages equal to that of males if they perform the “same work or another of equal value.”
As per the Decree of Federal Law no 6 for 2020 the men and women are to get equal wages. The UAE Labour Law seeks abolition of all restrictions imposed on women working at night as well as in the sectors of construction, manufacturing, energy, agriculture and transportation. (AW)
