“The salary of women in Russia is 70 percent the average salary of men,” Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said in early March. If this is so (there are no such official statistics thus far), the “wage gap” in the country over the past year has grown even larger. In 2017, according to Rosstat, the average earnings of women was almost 72 percent of the average for men.
Polygraph: How do men’s and women’s incomes differ in Russia?
People walk on a bridge across the Moskva river with the Kremlin in the background on Feb. 17, 2019 in Moscow.
