however this type of job will undoubtedly appear more attractive to men than to women and hovgaard discusses the implications of this in his article in the faroe islands per cent of the working women work parttime haagensen the large pay gap however cannot be explained solely by the large number of part time employments overall knudsen ascribes structural inequalities as a contributory factor to the large pay gap between men and women she highlights the company faroe seafood which in consisted of employees a vast majority of whom were women however in none of the five members of the companys top management were women knudsen