Today is Equal Pay Day again, the day of action on which the pay gap between men and women is addressed worldwide I aufmerksam is made. Simply whining about the salary differences does not go far enough.

gender-pay gap

The naked facts

First, one has to look at the pure facts, the naked facts so to speak: According to the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the difference in salary between women and men has decreased somewhat, but still remains at a high level.

In 2013, women employed full-time received in leading position in the private sector, with 22 percent, around a fifth less gross salary than men with such jobs. In 2012 the gender pay gap was 24 percent, in 2002 it was 26 percent.

Where does the data come from?

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The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is a representative repetitive survey that has been running since 30 years. On behalf of DIW Berlin, about 25.000 interviewees are interviewed in nearly 15.000 households by TNS Infratest Sozialforschung.

The group of people examined includes people between the ages of 18 and 64 who stated that they were employees in the private sector in Features with comprehensive management tasks (e.g. directors, managing directors or
also board members of larger companies and associations), other management functions or
highly qualified activities (e.g. department heads,
scientific employees, engineers.

The arguments

On ZEIT ONLINE tell readers today how they experience the gender pay gap - and report even more blatant salary differences. The TIME makes a slightly different calculation:
Now the statistics of the statistics office refer to the gross salary wages of all full-time men and women. The 22 percent represents the unpaid wage gap. The figure does not take into account that men and women choose different professions in which the wage level is different. It also does not take into account the fact that women are missing in well-paid management positions. And she also does not consider longer periods of time.
In this way the ZEIT comes to an adjusted wage gap of 7 to 8 percent.

The counter-arguments

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This is contradicted by the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. According to the figures, the difference in earnings between all full-time men and women in total gross wages according to the statistics of the Federal Statistical Office in 2013 was 17 per cent.

While men in management positions (including skilled workers in highly-qualified jobs) earned an average of 2013 euros in the year 5.100, women were on average 4.000 Euro.

Part-time and female-typical occupations are not to blame

This difference of more than one-fifth can hardly be explained by shorter working hours of women: full-time women in management positions worked with an average of 45,4 hours only about one and a half hours or three percent less than full-time men.

Also the gender typology of the professions carried out, i.e. the question of whether it is
rather women, mixed or men professions is not the cause of the
Gender pay gap for executives. Rather, the work experience plays for that
Income of executives a central role.

More transparency please!

Because it is still mainly women who interrupt theirs Careerto do family and housework and are much more likely than men to be or work part-time. This goes hand in hand with the attribution of less Expertise– and performance expectations and often result in so-called statistical discrimination against women on the labor market and when filling top positions, says Elke Holst, DIW Research Director for Gender Studies. And she advocates more transparency:
“Often times the usual earnings, bonuses or other rewards are particular
Not known for high positions, so women affected hardly know that they are below their potential in terms of earnings. "

Conditions like in Norway?

Incidentally, the job and career community Glassdor, which advocates the initiative of Federal Minister of Women Manuela Schwesig for more salary transparency, also hits the same horn Companys expressly welcomed. Glassdoor already gives employees the opportunity to find out about salaries and to share them anonymously. Product Manager Sonja Perry explains:
“Salary transparency is an important issue for many German employees: A recent Glassdoor study among German employees showed: 6 out of 10 respondents think that companies should be obliged to be more transparent with regard to salaries. More than half of supporters believe that this could help close the pay gap between men and women. One in two thinks that greater transparency Trust between employers and workers.”
So do we soon have conditions like in Norway, where everyone knows what the other deserves? And is that desirable?


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