Blatant salary differences: women in management earn less {Trend! Study}

It is often lamented that women are not enough to earnbecause they simply choose the wrong, badly paid professions. A study now shows: the higher the proportion of women in a Job, the lower the earnings. And: A long-term study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) shows that this is by no means the only thing Problem. Women in management positions still earn almost a quarter less than men.

Quote is not the only problem

If Manuela Schwesig has her way, the fixed quota for the supervisory boards of large companies should be applied from January 1, 2016. In plain language, this means that every position that needs to be filled would then have to be filled with one Ms. be filled up until 30 percent is reached.

However, whether equality could be achieved in this way, one may question the current calculations of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).

Data from the socio-economic panel

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These are based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW, the largest and longest running multidisciplinary long-term study in Germany, which is funded by the federal and state governments as part of the research infrastructure in Germany under the umbrella of the Leibniz Association (WGL).

Every year since 1984, the TNS Infratest social research survey institute has submitted several thousand for the SOEP People questioned. There are currently around 30.000 respondents in around 15.000 households. The SOEP data provide information about, among other things Income and employment.

Who was interviewed?

The group of people included in the calculations based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) included persons between 18 and 64 years who stated that they held one of the following positions:

• as an employee in the private sector in functions with comprehensive management duties: for example, directors, managing directors, or directors of larger companies and associations
• other management functions or highly qualified activities: for example department heads, scientific staff, engineers

Leadership women earn just under a quarter less than men

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In 2012, the gender-specific earning power of full-time employees in management positions and highly qualified activities in the private sector was almost one quarter (23 per cent).

Women earned on average almost 4.000 Euro monthly, while men around 5.200 Euro. The corresponding actual weekly working time was on average for men at 47 hours per week and for women 45 hours.

Hardly any changes in the last 10 years

The average absolute merit gap between the sexes has been reduced only slightly in the last ten years: it was 2012 at a good 1.200 Euro. In the case of women, earnings rose by around 2002 euros compared to 800, and by almost 750 euros by men.

Because of the lower starting level of earnings ten years ago (women: around 3.150 Euro, men around 4.400 Euro) the gender-specific earning difference is now lower than at that time (2002: just under 29 percent).

Are women responsible for too little merit?

In journalism, now a classic women's profession, I have often noticed that the question of a reasonable fee on the other side is answered with a shocking downshift of the Kinlade.

So much, it seems to me often, publishers are accustomed to that Mrs offers her paperwork for an appel and an egg, because she is glad to be able to do something comfortable at home. And accordingly, it is also difficult to achieve a reasonable fee in classical women's professions.

Women do not study the wrong, but demand too little

This was not always the case in journalism: it used to be a classic men's career and it was also decently earned. And in the days of leadership, there is, oh wonder, the journalism still dominates today.

In this respect, not only the colleague from the FAZ is wrong when he demands that women should do the right thing studierenwho supposedly do important subjects and jobs to earn more. Conversely, it becomes a shoe: no matter what job, women should ensure that they earn reasonable wages.

The methodology of the study

On the contrary, how about the thesis that professions, as soon as they are more dominated by women, in their social Significance and thus also be devalued in terms of earnings? In any case, a study points in this direction:

The title of the study is “Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany: What Role Does Firm Size Play?”, It was published in English as DIW Discussion Papers No. 1206.

The authors Anne Busch and Elke Holst, research director at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, have used econometric models to investigate which features influence their earnings. The data base provided socio-economic panel (SOEP).

The higher the proportion of women, the lower the merit

As a result, full-time private sector non-executive employees earn lower earnings the higher the proportion of women in a job. In leadership positions, however, this effect occurs only in larger ones Companys .

“Obviously, male jobs and not the (few) female jobs benefit from the better earnings opportunities in larger companies in managerial positions,” say the two authors.

Further information

On the factors influencing the gender pay gap (also in comparison to non-executives) cf. Anne Busch and Elke Holst (2013): Gender-specific earnings differences among managers and other employees in Germany: What relevance does the proportion of women in the profession have? In: Journal of Sociology. Jg. 42. Issue 4. P. 315 - 336.

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