Stats: Women may outnumber men, but still not equal

08.03.2011                      02.Adar ll, 5771

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Stats: Women may outnumber men, but still not equal

Ahead of Int'l Women's Day, CBS report show females still earn only two-thirds of what members of opposite sex earn.

Women in Israel might outnumber men, but they have not reached equality in the workplace or in society, annual data published Monday by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) ahead of International Women’s Day on Tuesday has revealed.
At the start of 2010 there were 2,788,800 women aged 15 or older living in Israel, compared to 2,654,625 men, the figures show….