Generally discrimination appears when some individuals that have a certain feature (for instance belong to religion, race, gender, etc) are discriminated against because of this no matter what their labor productivity might be. Discrimination emerges also when two individuals with the same productivity are paid differently and these differentials correspond to some non-economic features (age, gender, nationality etc). According to the ‘Global Report on Gender Discrimination’ 2006 published by World Economic Forum total equality between men and women still reaches low levels. From 115 countries included in the top ranking, Romania is on the 46th with the same score as Ukraine, Uganda and Trinidad-Tobago. Romania is ok regarding education and health. In this paper we analyse the main differences between women and men, and also the measures which must be taking for eliminate these disfunctions from european integration point of view.

labor market, statistical discrimination, discrimination, uncertainty, demand for labor