On the Gender Gap in Israel’s Labor Market - Policy Brief from Shoresh Institution

On the eve of International Women’s Day, Shoresh Institute researchers, Ms.Sagit Azary-Viesel and Prof. Dan Ben-David, are publishing new findings in a new Shoresh Policy Brief on the gender gap in Israel’s labor market. 

Among the study’s primary findings:

• a steady five decade-long increase in female employment
• gender wage gaps in Israel are among the developed world’s highest
• increasing gender equality alongside declining levels in areas of
• education that are key for advancement in the labor market large, but decreasing, gender gaps in the share of part-time positions
• the primary reason given for non-employment among women – child and home care

to download the policy brief