According to figures from the annual Norwegian Work Research Institute’s 2019 barometer the gender pay gap among full-time employees in the country remains at 20%. After adjusting for age, education, sector and several other factors, there is still a 13 % gender difference. The barometer also measures the difference between how much influence the responders felt they had over their own work situation. While 47 % of the men said they had a lot of influence only 42 % of the women said the same. Asked whether they felt they could control how their organised their own work, the difference was considerably larger. While 63 % of the men put themselves on 4 to 5 on a scale to five, where 1 was no influence at all and 5 was a lot of influence, only 45% of the women respondents did the same.
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