#MeToo & Working in Europe's StartUps: #NewWork Sexism Salary {Trend! Study}

#MeToo and the Weinstein cause sparked discussions around the world on the subject of sexism, which also includes the IT– and the start-up scene is affected. But the working conditions in startups have long been a role model for others Companys, are always concerned about criticism, A study has examined both topics in more detail.

The working conditions of NewWork under the magnifying glass

NewWork and the new have long been decisive Working world 4.0 as a trend topic, the discussion in the Recruitingindustry - far beyond startups. Because what began there as an innovative innovation in the world of work has long been a role model for more established companies that are taking the step towards digital Transformation want to accomplish.

One more reason to take a closer look at this new work culture, to question it and also to examine its downsides. Joblift has around 32 million for this Online-Jobs, published in Germany, the UK, France and the Netherlands in the last 2017 months, and an online survey of around 500 people in September XNUMX Startups-Employees in the above markets.

#MeToo and sexism in the European startup scene

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The question that currently arises is: To what extent is the European start-up scene affected by such abuses as they are known in the case of Weinstein? How do the other working conditions and merit in startups look like this? And which locations determine the founding landscape in Europe at all?

In his European Startup Job Report 2017, Joblift came to the following conclusions:

1. 13% of the surveyed startup employees in Germany were already personally affected by sexism in the workplace, 30% more than the European average.
2. Although they occupy nearly half of the leadership positions, on average women earn about 11% less than their male counterparts.
3. Start-up employees in Germany earn an average of € 41.510 - around 7% less than the national average, but up to 30% more than their colleagues in neighboring countries
4. 37% of German startup jobs are created in Berlin, but the job market is stagnating there

Every eighth startup employee affected by sexism

The hashtag #MeToo could apparently also have been proclaimed in the German start-up scene: sexism is apparently more widespread in German startups than in other countries. Every eighth startupEmployees in Germany was already personally affected by sexism – up to twice as often as in other European countries. Around a fifth of all employees surveyed in German startups have already experienced discrimination.

68% of this is sexism, above all sexist jokes, which 80% already experienced. After all, 40% said they had been victims of non-consensual body contact. In no other of the surveyed countries were survey participants exposed to sexism to the same extent: the 13% of the respondents in German startups are only 9% in France and the United Kingdom and 7% in the Netherlands.

High proportion of men, lower pay for women

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Although women make up around half of leading position occupy, to earn around 11% less than their male startup peers. According to the survey, every third executive board is occupied by a woman, as well as a full 79% of positions involving personnel responsibility. However, the proportion of women is increasing clear decreases as soon as budget responsibility is added to personnel – in this case the figure is 47%. Nonetheless, this is above the cross-country average (31%) – namely that of the UK (29%), France (28%) and the Netherlands (37%).

However: In none of the four countries surveyed do so many respondents feel the gender ratio in their Company as unbalanced as in Germany. There, 41% of respondents agree, in the Netherlands 40%, in France 31% and in the UK only 23%. And: Regardless of the relatively high proportion of women in management positions, a gender-specific wage gap of around 11% can be observed in German startups: the women surveyed earn an average of 40.087 euros, their male colleagues 44.309 euros.

Startups pay less and ask for more

In general, startups pay 7% less and require 10% longer working hours than the average German employers - what so far was a subjective assessment, with which dissatisfied individual dissatisfied employees made in the media, thus becomes a certainty. After all: In Germany startups are still paying better than in other countries.

The information from the survey conducted among German startup employees results in an average annual grosssalary of 41.510 euros, with 22% of those surveyed earning less than 25.000 euros. This Income is around 7% below the national average calculated by Statista, but 5% above that of the survey participants from startups in all four countries. Just over half of the German startup employees surveyed work between 40 and 49 hours a week.

The average weekly working time is 45 hours - four hours more than the all-German average, as figures from the Federal Statistical Office show. The average week-long working time is even higher with 46 hours. This extra work often equals startups with flexibility - 90% of German start-up companies promise flexible working hours in their job profiles. This makes them the most popular supplementary service, in front of free drinks and food (86%) as well as employee events (78%).

Berlin is not Germany's boom town

Surprisingly: More than a third of all German startup jobs are created in Berlin, but the job market in other cities is growing by up to 15% more. In Germany, a total of 47.319 job advertisements from the last year were assigned to the start-up industry. Alone 37% of them were tendered in the German capital, followed by Munich with 14% and Hamburg with 7% of job ads.

Even if Berlin asserts itself as a German start-up center, it is dwindling Significance: While the number of published jobs rose monthly in other cities, for example by 5% in Cologne and by 6% in Frankfurt am Main, it stagnated in Berlin. In addition, Berlin competes on a European level with other start-up metropolises, above all London - 21.549 startup jobs were posted there in the period mentioned, 24% more than in Berlin.

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