Women in the European Union (EU) earned on average 16 percent less than men in 2013, according to Eurostat, the European Union's statistical office here on Thursday.

Eurostat said that the gender pay gap in EU member states in 2013 ranged from less than 5 percent in Slovenia to more than 20 percent in Estonia, Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany.

Eurostat pointed out that rather than wage, the type of occupations also caused differences between females and males in the labor market.

Though representing 46 percent of employed persons, women were under-represented amongst managers, with only a third being female in 2013 in the EU. On the contrary, women were over-represented among clerical support workers as well as among service and sales workers, accounting for around two-thirds of employed persons in these occupations.

On the occasion of International Women's Day, which will fall on March 8, Eurostat published a selection of data on men and women with regard to their situation on the labor market.