A group of friends chatting in Sarajevo. Flickr/Kashfi Halford. Some rights reserved.
When I read that the gender wage gap in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the worst in Europe, with women making only 54% of what men make, my first thought was that my grandmother would have been appalled.
She grew up in the era of Yugoslav socialism, in a time where women were flooding the labour market and universities for the first time. She saw unthinkable social progress compressed into a few short years after World War II – she joined the Anti-Fascist Women’s Front, volunteered in work actions, studied nursing, and took a job in another city, where she was given her own apartment and earned more than her ex-husband throughout their careers.
