Social inequality

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Ladies in Bulgaria live longer, but their pensions are lower than those of men

Interviewed by Markos Karasarinis

By Pavlos Geroulanos *

One in two children is subjected to some form of abuse and one in three is at risk of poverty and social exclusion, the Save the Children Association said in a release today.

The high walls surrounding houses in towns like Decan - built to 'protect' women from men's prying eyes - face scrutiny from activists who see them as symbols of still rampant gender inequality.

Minister for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue Gordana Comic said that the two laws should enable everyone to feel that they live in a slightly fairer society.

These imbalances were already present in society. In 2018, an OECD report said women had far less access to the internet and to a smartphone than men, while a UN women's report concluded that 1.7 billion women from countries with low and middle incomes didn't have a mobile phone at all.

Bulgaria is the first in inequalities in the European Union - the income gap between the poorest and richest in Bulgaria is over eight times. This is according to the latest Eurostat data for 2020.

CITUB economic expert Lyuboslav Kostov commented for Radio Horizont: