Almost done: only 217 years to equality!
Since this week, the average EU citizen has been working lukewarm compared to the average EU citizen. The gender pay gap is 16.3 percent across the EU. That is, European women earn on average 16.3 percent less than men. And that in turn means that they work in principle almost 60 days or 8 weeks unpaid? So, if you take the average hourly wage of a man as the basis.
Pay equity? Germany is in last place
But: We can only dream of such values in Germany. According to the European Commission, on average, women pay us 22 percent less than men. Female employees have been working here since mid-October out of pure kindness. Only in the Czech Republic and Estonia are wages even more unequal than here.
"Adjusted" Gender Pay Gap? probably rather adjusted bullshit
Yes, yes, I know. "Adjusted", the gender pay gap is not so bad. If one calculates structural differences such as career choice, education level and employment volume, the gender pay gap is only 6 percent.
So women just have to stop choosing those low-paid jobs like education and nursing. Instead, they finally have to take on more managerial responsibility and work full-time, and the disadvantage is already shrinking by 16 percentage points ...
Sarcasm aside: The "adjusted" gender pay gap makes our labor market exactly 0 percent fairer. After all, it is a socio-political problem if it is "more valuable" (in the sense of lucrative!) To repair cars than to care for old people.
It is a traditional and structurally promoted problem, whenever the mother works part-time and never the father. And that women work much less often in leadership positions, certainly also has systematic and cultural reasons, and I would gaaanz carefully put the absolutely intuitive and unproven thesis that the club of the powerful does not like to let new members, if no one compels him .. ,
And one way or another, the effect of wage inequality remains unaffected by any clean-up: women have less coal in their pockets and are thus less independent. Moreover, their chances of getting an acceptable pension that will allow them a dignified life in old age are pretty crappy.
Gender Gap Report 2017: Equal Opportunities in the Job Expected in 2234
Fortunately, politics is doing something to put an end to injustice: if the current pace of reforms remains constant, women in 2234 will have the same opportunities in the global labor market as men (YEAH!). Experts have calculated this value based on the data of the new Gender Gap Report 2017 of the World Economic Forum, as Zeit Online writes.
Since 2006, the Gender Gap Report has been examining the equality of women and men worldwide. In addition to economic opportunities, he also takes into account areas such as education, health, life expectancy and political participation. Based on all the data from the different areas, the result is a score indicating the gender equality in percent.
The highest score achieved in 2017 Iceland with 0.88: There, the structural equality in all areas is achieved to 88 percent. Germany is ranked 12th overall in the global ranking with a score of 0.78. However, if you look only at the economy, we finish 43th (out of 144).
Interesting: We started in 2006 in 5th place. This puts us 7 places behind in the last 11 years, when the CDU / CSU led the government (#justsaying). But surely our chancellor will use her fourth term to bring the women's politics in Germany a bit more forward together with her ministers ...
