Taiwanese women need to work additional 52 days a year to earn same pay as men: Data

Ministry of Labor designated Feb. 21 as Taiwan’s Equal Pay Day for 2020

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/02/25
By:  Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The latest report issued by the Ministry of Labor on Tuesday (Feb. 25) shows that Taiwanese women need to work an additional 52 days to get the same pay as their male colleagues.

The ministry has designated Feb. 21 as the country’s Equal Pay Day for 2020 based on a survey of people’s salaries last year. The survey reveals that in 2019 the average hourly rate of female workers in Taiwan was NT$292, which accounts for 85.8 percent of their male colleagues’ hourly rate.

The gender pay gap last year was 14.2 percent. In other word, the incomes of women in Taiwan were nearly two months less than those of their colleagues of the opposite sex.
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