Banker Pay Is Where Nordic Sex Equality Ends as Women Trail
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The Nordic region boasts the world’s smallest gender gap. But step into its banks and that gap widens, a lot.
Women working in the bank and insurance industries of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland make about one-third less than their male counterparts. In no other industry -- from the drugmakers of Denmark to the oil producers of Norway -- is the discrepancy as large, according to European Commission data.