… and pay gap leads to economic growth Increasing women’s participation in the work force and closing the pay gap … pay gaps has other positive impacts. An increase in women’s salaries is likely to lower poverty rates among women and … enforcement (study on 48 continental US states over the 1950–1999 period, Besley and Case, 2003) Country-level …
… Malta has one of the lowest levels of women’s political representation in the EU. Of the political … adopt measures for the advancement of women – since women‘s suffrage in 1947. Nevertheless formal and informal … awareness-raising. It has introduced a voluntary 20% women’s quota on electoral lists and a 1/3 quota within its …