Framework Conditions in Estonia

National Action Plan to Reduce the Gender Pay Gap

In 2012, the Estonian government has adopted an action plan to reduce the gender pay gap. This action plan acknowledges that reducing the gender pay gap is a complex issues and the gender pay gap needs to be tackled from different perspectives simultaneously. The action plan includes the following aspects:

1) improving the implementation of the existing Gender Equality Act (e.g. improvement of the collection of statistics, awareness raising, support of the work of the Gender Equality and Equal Treatment Commissioner etc.),

2) improving the family, work and private life reconciliation;

3) promoting gender mainstreaming, especially in the field of education;

4) reducing the gender segregation; and finally,

5) analysing the organizational practices and pay systems in the public sector.^[1]