The Left has issued an appeal for structural measures to combat Luxembourg's gender pay gap, which amounts to almost 14%.

Starting this Monday and until the end of the year, women in Luxembourg are effectively working without pay, at least from a statistical standpoint, according to a statement issued by The Left. Although women’s hourly wages are on average slightly higher than men’s, the overall gender pay gap still amounts to 13.9% when calculated across the entire year.

The discrepancy is largely attributed to the higher proportion of women working part-time, often because they shoulder a greater share of childcare duties. The Left is therefore renewing its call for the introduction of a 32-hour workweek with full pay, arguing that such a measure would structurally improve work-life balance. In the party’s view, reducing working hours could help narrow the gender pay gap in the medium term by allowing household and care duties to be shared more equally between women and men.