{"id":124734,"date":"2024-01-19T07:35:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T05:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/gender-pay-gap-in-germany-women-earn-18-less-than-men\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T07:35:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T05:35:16","slug":"gender-pay-gap-in-germany-women-earn-18-less-than-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/gender-pay-gap-in-germany-women-earn-18-less-than-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender pay gap in Germany: Women earn 18% less than men"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124734\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>There&#8217;s a clear correlation between the pay gap between men and women, and the birth of the first child, say statisticians. Women in Germany earned 18% less on average than men in 2023, the country&#8217;s Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) said on Thursday. On an adjusted basis, the gap was 6%, it added. The report showed that women, on average, earned \u20ac20.84 ($22.7) per hour last year, compared with \u20ac25.3 for men.<\/p>\n<p>Statisticians have been calculating the gender pay gap \u2014 which shows the difference in average gross earnings between men and women \u2014 since 2006 when it stood at 23%. The difference had steadily decreased until 2020, to 18%. It has remained unchanged since then. There are also regional differences within Germany: While the pay gap in western Germany stood at 19%, it was far lower in states that were formerly part of the communist East Germany, at 7%. How a German firm is attempting to bridge gender pay gap<\/p>\n<p>What are the reasons behind the gap? Destatis came up with several reasons why the pay gap has persisted.<\/p>\n<p>It said women&#8217;s earnings begin to stagnate from the age of 30 years, the average age when women in Germany have their first child. &#8220;This could be because women interrupt their careers more frequently during their working lives for family reasons and work part-time,&#8221; the agency said, citing child care and household responsibilities. It pointed out that women&#8217;s career advancement and pay rises are therefore less frequent.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said structural reasons could have also contributed to the gap. It said women are more likely than men to work in sectors and professions that pay less. &#8220;They are also more frequently employed part-time or in marginal employment than men, which is also associated with lower average gross hourly earnings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For women and men employed for the same number of hours with the same qualifications in the same kinds of jobs, the statistics show that women earn 6% less than men on average. Gender pay gap persists not just in Germany, but also across the European Union. In the EU overall, women are paid 13% less than men on average for an equal job, according to the European Commission. And progress on closing this gap has been slow.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2020, the European Commission set out a strategy to close the gender pay gap by 2025. The Pay Transparency Directive was introduced in June 2023, making it possible for workers to determine if they&#8217;re being discriminated against, or for employers to make sure they&#8217;re applying the principles of equal pay.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/gender-pay-gap-in-germany-women-earn-18-less-than-men\/a-68022521\">DW<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/gender-pay-gap-in-germany-women-earn-18-less-than-men\/\">Gender pay gap in Germany: Women earn 18% less than men<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,2075,5619,1038,2839],"class_list":["post-124734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-gap","tag-gender","tag-germany","tag-pay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}