In 2024, 569.1 thousand working women had precarious ties. THE majority concerned fixed-term contracts in the private sector e business sector of the State.
Almost 570,000 female workers in Portugal had precarious employment in 2024, equivalent to 25.6% of the total, and the situation worsens among young workers with the rate exceeding 50%, concludes a CGTP study.
“Employment has increased, but mainly at the expense of precarious employment, with seven out of every ten workers finding employment through non-permanent contracts”, points out the study prepared by the CGTP Commission for Equality between Women and Men, to mark Equality Week and International Women’s Day.
With regards specifically to the female workforce, 569.1 thousand working women in Portugal they had precarious ties in 2024, the equivalent of 25.6% of the 2,223.3 thousand female workers.
According to the analysis of Portugal is “the second country in the European Union where precarious ties are most frequently used”, with in 2024, women represented “45% of workers with precarious employment in Portugal”.
Of the approximately 570 thousand women with precarious employment in 2024, the majority (449,3 mil) concerned fixed-term contracts in the private sector e business sector of the State (SEE), while 50.5 thousand referred to fixed-term contracts in Public Administration and the remaining 69.3 thousand to “false service provision and others in total sectors”, according to the analysis of the trade union central, through crossing data from the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, the General Directorate of Administration and Public Employment and the National Institute of Statistics.
In view of this analysis, the CGTP warns that precariousness “has profoundly negative consequences on the lives of workers – resulting in lower wages, insecurity, less investment by companies in professional training, intimidation and blackmail, higher work rates, etc. – as well as on the economy and the country’s development, in addition to constituting the main cause of unemployment”.
This is the according to a study released by CGTP on the current situation of women at work, within the scope of equality week.
The first was dedicated to salaries and found that almost 60% of working women in Portugal received agross income in November 2025, with one in five of these earning the national minimum wage.
CGTP holds equality week between March 2nd and 8th with the motto “The Equality that April opened. Strengthening Rights. Fulfilling the Constitution”, with initiatives in the country. International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8th.
