Gender Pay Gap: We need more money for social jobs!
3 questions to Federal Family Minister Franziska Giffey (SPD), who announced a year ago to take care of it:
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: In your first speech in the Bundestag in March 2018, you called for an upgrading of social professions. What have you done since then?
Franziska Giffey: In my ministry, there is concrete improvement for the educator and geriatric care professions. Since we have made important first steps. From 2020, for example, the school fees will be abolished in nursing education and a training allowance introduced. In the training of educators we work on it.
When does the pay in the job get better?
First and foremost are the Länder and municipalities, employers and trade unions. They negotiate wages, and they are all responsible for improving pay. We are in good conversations with all stakeholders and do our part to finance early childhood support. With the Good KiTa Act, we will give a total of 5.5 billion euros to the countries by 2022. This money can also be used, for example, to improve the personnel key in the day care centers.
What are the benefits of such measures for reducing the gender pay gap?
80 percent of the 5.7 million employees in social professions are female. Better pay therefore helps women in particular. In addition, educators, educators and caregivers are highly skilled, and at the same time, we find that the low salary does not match the high social value and high qualification at all. We need to fix this imbalance: we need better salaries and more career paths. But we also want to inspire more men for these careers in the future. Only then will we be able to attract and retain enough people for these valuable activities - a great challenge in times of skill shortages.
