Yes123 survey shows that the average salary for women is substantially less than men

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/05/02
By: Alicia Nguyen and Te’Qin Windham, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Yes123 released a survey Wednesday revealing that the

average monthly salary for Taiwan’s professional women under 39, workplace mothers, and middle-aged women over the age of 40 and working mothers lags behind men’s as much as NT $17,700.

According to the “Workplace Moms’ Salary and Mother’s Day Business Opportunity Survey,” the average monthly salary of a working mother under age 39 is NT$31,300, which is higher than a young professional woman without a child has a salary of NT$31,000. However, the average monthly salary of both men and men with children of the same age range is also relatively low.

The results also show that middle-aged professional mothers over 40 have an average monthly salary of NT$35,000, which is only 67 percent of men’s salary of the same age range. The women’s salary is as much as NT$17,700 less than men’s; the wages of middle-aged working women without children is equally lower than that of men’s.
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