Better jobs and salaries are offered to men than to women

Statistics and numerous studies examining gender relations show that men earn more than women, hold better jobs and positions in companies.
Nevertheless, Infostud reports 157,147 unemployed men registered with the National Employment Service (NSZ) with 7,333 among them having only primary education.
According to Miloš Turinski, PR representative of Infostud, sectors like sales and trade provide the most job opportunities, regardless of gender, due to high demand for sales assistants and commercial representatives. Logistics and transport need drivers and warehouse workers, then follows production.
Turinski noted a growing interest among men in sectors like customer support and administration. Nevertheless, numerous surveys show that men often avoid jobs that require prolonged interaction with clients, though positions like customer or telephone support rank among the top 10 jobs applied for by them. In addition, jobs in education, social services, or healthcare are rarely considered by men, as they still perceive these sectors as ‘female-dominated’.
Statistics show that men dominated eight out of the top ten job roles with the highest number of vacancies in September. Programmers, with 3,543 openings, were by far the most advertised positions, followed by 1,594 for warehouse workers. 981 workers for loading and unloading, as well as manual labourers for civil engineering, ironworkers, truck drivers, carpenters, and assistants to ironworkers were also sought by companies.
The Labour Force Survey conducted by the Serbian Statistical Office (RZS) reports that 53 per cent of employed people in Serbia are men, while 47 per cent are women. The construction sector (90.8 per cent of the workforce) and agriculture (70.2 per cent) are dominated by men, while in service industries the proportion of men to women is almost equal.
Among occupational groups, 65 per cent of managers, directors, and officials and 83 per cent of tradesmen are men. The ratio of men in military occupations attains 88 per cent.
According to data from the Business Registers Agency (APR) for 2023, 75.6 per cent of companies have men as legal representatives or directors. A woman leads a company in 24.4 per cent of cases. Men own 66.3 per cent of property. 76.6 per cent of men in the 15 to 64 age category are self-employed, while only 23.4 per cent of women are entrepreneurs.
According to the publication Women and Men in the Republic of Serbia 2023 by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, women earn, on average, 8.8 per cent less than men.

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