The wage differences between women and men in the private sector have fallen to 18.3 percent in Austria in recent years, but in the EU comparison, Austria was the country with the second largest pay gap between men and women behind Latvia (19 percent). In the EU average it is twelve percent.
For the pay gap between men and women, the average gross hour trips of women and men in the private sector are compared. In Austria this fell from 22.3 percent to 18.3 percent between 2013 and 2023. In the same period it fell from 16 to twelve percent in the same period.
- The pay gap between men and women in Latvia (19.0 percent) is highest, just behind Austria is the Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, Estonia and Finland with values of approximately 17 to 18 percent.
- On the other hand, men and women earn almost the same in Luxembourg – here the wage difference can even be at least at least for women (minus 0.9 percent).
- There are also small differences in Belgium (0.7 percent), Italy (2.2 percent) and Romania (3.8 percent).
Reasons for the high wage difference
According to Statistics Austria (based on data from 2022), around a third (6.4 percentage points) can be explained, according to the Statistics Austria the rest remains inexpliced.
- Factors are, for example, that women work more often in poorly paid industries and professions.
- The degree of employment also plays a role: differences in working hours have already been taken into account by using the use of hour income – but the part -time is also paid less on average than men.
- Moreover, women work in the company on average.
- The training, on the other hand, has no share in the income of primary women – on the contrary: if it was, women should earn more than men.
Speaking of part -the share of partial people in people in all employees has increased in recent years. This applies to both men and women – in the first it grew from 10.3 to 13.4 percent, the last from 45.6 to 50.6 percent.
Vegetely time is the dominant form of profitable work, especially for women with children under the age of 15. For men with children under the age of 15, on the other hand, it was not only considerably lower with 7.7 percent – it was also under the Herenpart quotum (13.4 percent).
Source: Krone
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