In Kosovo, women job seekers more educated than men

According to the data, working women with the Bachelor and master level in December 2020 were 7,557, while with the same level of schooling, 4,370 men.

But despite the highest level of schooling, female employment is at a lower level. According to official data, the level of employment among women in Kosovo is 14.4 percent, while male employment is 46.2 percent. The unemployment rate in Kosovo is about 30 percent, and each year, up to 25 thousand people enter the labour market in Kosovo.

Linda Gashi, 24, a graduate of the law school, has been on the run for two years. For him, this is one of the biggest challenges I face.

“I applied for work up to five times in public institutions and when I saw that nothing was done, I quit, I didn't apply to <x0... She says.

In almost every working competition of public institutions, she says, work experience is required for the specific position, which Linda has been unable to achieve during her studies.

“I tried (after graduation) to practice my profession in many countries, I worked for free. I have made 2 -3 kinds of practices, since it usually requires work experience if it applies for a job. I've been trying to develop my career”Gashi says.

“I knew from generations older than I did, that they didn't find a job when they graduated from <x0... She says about the REL.

Multiple Harms to Employment

Luljeta Demolli, executive director at the Kosovar Centre for Gender Studies, tells Radio Free Europe that based on research done, a woman in Kosovo can wait up to 8 years to be employed.

According to her, women are more difficult to employ, since they require a more secure job and a job where the Law on Cutting of Lehonia is respected and where wages are more dignified.

“Young women have an interest in performing the faculty to prepare for work, but difficulties arise when they seek work in the public or private sectors. Men find it easier because even the professions required are still the profession of men asking for more”, Demolli says.

Also, Demolli adds that there are women who are more educated than men and can find jobs more easily, but have no connection with political parties, as she says, “currently in Kosovo, political parties employ citizens”.

“One thing that is preventing women from entering the labour market is child care not when they are young, but when they are in school for 7 years to 13 years, where children cannot even be sent to gardens and there is no full-day schooling. The education system is not compatible with the work system for women and men in Kosovo, so surely a parent should sacrifice and stay at home”, She says.

The number of employees in the public sector is over 83,000.

The average net salary in most employees in Kosovo, according to the AKS, is between 400 and 500 euros a month. Of the average monthly pay, gender differences have been noted by 0.1 percent higher in men than in women.

Kosovo leads with smaller number of female employment

Compared to countries in the region, according to the World Bank, Kosovo has the lowest level of women's employment.

According to a World Bank report, in 2019 Albania had a female employment rate of over 50 percent, Montenegro and Serbia near 50 percent, North Macedonia over 40 percent, until Bosnia and Herzegovina about 30 percent.