Estonian Gender Equality Act

The aim of the Gender Equality Act is to ensure that men and women are treated equally, and thereby ensure everybody gets equal opportunities to participate in professional and work life. Statistics and different studies show that despite the current labour law requirements regarding equal treatment, injustice and inequality are common in professional life and society, e.g. the gender pay gap, strong horizontal gender segregation (one professional field is dominated by men, another by women), and vertical gender segregation (women are the majority at a professional field, but have lower level jobs), etc.