Politics Portugal only EU country where gender equality at work has worsened

 Portugal was the only EU country to score lower in workplace equality, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) said in its Gender Equality Index 2024 published on Tuesday.

The report, which ranks the 27 EU member states in six categories - work, money, knowledge, time, power and health - found Portugal performed worst on gender equality in the workplace environment.

"Portugal was the only country with a negative change in score in the area of work,” the report writes.

"In most countries, the increase in score was negligible, ranging from 0.1 points to 1.2 points," the EIGE also said.

The 2024 Index is primarily based on data from 2022 and shows progress in the short term (2021-2022) and the long term (2010-2022). (...)