New member states criticised for gender policies

A new report has slammed new EU member states for the disparities women face in jobs, wages and political representation.

Bulgaria, Estonia and Slovakia top the bad stakes as the countries with 25 to 30 percent pay gap between men and women - which is almost twice the current EU average of 15 per cent.

The report by the Open Society Institute argues that the countries took the necessary legal measures to improve gender equality, but these have so far not been "translated into a m...