What would a day without women actually look like? Here are some scenarios that Romania will suddenly turn into if the women take a leave of absence or everyone leaves the country.

Almost half of Romania’s workforce will disappear. Women make up 42% of workers in the economy. In certain industries, this is 80% of workers (for example, in education, according to the INS). At the level of preschool education, women occupy 99% of positions.

The average salary will increase because Romanian women earn less on average. If you delve into the details, you will see that in some countries men receive less money, as the statistics show.

Karash-Severin, Dolj, Teleorman, Kelerashi, Vrancha, Vaslui, Botoshani, Harghita, Kovasna are counties where women earn more than men

In terms of GDP, if all women missed a day at work, the economy would be affected by almost half a billion eurosif we take into account the fact that GDP will reach €300 billion this year and weigh the data with net wages by gender, income groups, hours worked by women and the number of working days this year (248) .

Not only education would be affected, but also health care, pharmaceutical services, accounting or cashiers in supermarkets, mainly women’s jobs.

A day without women would also mean about 500 fewer births, with all the socio-economic consequences that entails.

Not to mention the most difficult problem, which is not even included in GDP: the work that women do at home.

Most of the housework is still done by women. A worldwide study (Pew Social Trends) shows that mothers spend 13.5 hours a week caring for children, compared to 7.3 hours for men.

Women spend an average of 37 minutes cooking (compared to 17 minutes for men), 29 minutes cleaning (compared to 10 minutes for us men) and 17 minutes doing laundry each day (compared to 5 minutes for men). Most women say they shop around the house. Overall, women spend an average of two hours and 15 minutes a day on housework, while men spend just over an hour.

Young women are increasingly postponing childbearing / The average age of a mother at first birth has increased from just over 20 years in 1990 to 27.5 years in 2021

Why do women live an average of 5.6 years longer than men? The chances of prolonging life in all EU member states are higher for women. European statistics available at the level of 2021 show that women in the European Union live an average of 82.8 years, while the average life expectancy of men is 77.2 years. The researchers say that this difference is largely explained by the lifestyle that is healthier for women, as well as the different occupations of the two sexes.

• In 2021, the population was served by 68,760 doctors (48,527 women and 20,233 men). On average, 278 residents (142 women and 136 men) were assigned to one doctor. Of the number of doctors, 12,430 were family doctors (9,713 women and 2,717 men), and a family doctor represented an average of 1,538 residents (786 women and 752 men).

• All over the world, the medical field is occupied mainly by women. Romania is no exception, so the medical staff of the Romanian health care system is characterized by a deep gender imbalance. In 2021, more than 70% of doctors, more than 65% of dentists, about 90% of pharmacists and about 65% of physiotherapists in our country are women, and the trend in the period 2010-2021 was to increase their share. Only 10.5% of medical staff with secondary education are men. The ratio of women to men in the category of medical workers with a higher education is 3:1, and in the category of medical workers with a secondary education it is almost 9:1 in favor of women.

• The propensity of girls to continue their studies within the framework of the national education system is also manifested in university education. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 57.7% of the total number of students who graduated from educational programs with a bachelor’s degree are women. The situation is similar by gender and by the forms of ownership of universities: in public institutions, 58.3% of bachelor’s graduates are girls, respectively, 54.6% in private ones. And in the case of master’s programs and postgraduate courses, there are fewer male graduates than girls, and they make up 37.2% of all graduates with ISCED 7 educational level diplomas. Among graduates of master’s programs and postgraduate courses, there is a high proportion of girls in the field of education (84.3%) .

• In 2021, the additional potential workforce included 227.5 thousand people. Of them, 55.2% were women. It is observed that women predominate, especially in the age group of 45-54 years (61.6%), when their labor potential is still high. In Romania, 18.0% of young people aged 15 to 24 were neither employed nor in any form of education in 2021. NEET rate is high for women

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