Estonia had the highest gender pay gap at 21.3 per cent, followed by Austria (18.4 per cent), Switzerland and Czechia (both 17.9 per cent).

Luxembourg (-0.7 per cent) was the only country with a negative figure, meaning women earned slightly more than men.

  • atro_city
    11•4 days ago

    Unadjusted gender pay gap is a significant indicator, showing the difference between the average gross hourly earnings of men and women, expressed as a percentage of the average gross hourly earnings of men.

    It does not take into account education, age, hours worked or type of job.

    It’s a significantly bad indicator for being unadjusted. The assumption it leads to is for people working in the same position, with the same amount of experience, and working the same amount of hours, there is a gap in wages reaching sometimes 20%, but that simply is not the average case.

    • @[email protected]
      6•4 days ago

      When I think of the couples I know and what they do for living, in 100% of the cases the men earn more than the women not because of their sex but the nature of their work. That’s why I’m highly sceptical of how big the actual gender pay gap is. Applies in my case too; SO does assembly work in a factory and I run my own construction business.

    • @PostingInPublic
      1•4 days ago

      Continue your thoughts:

      Why don’t women hold the same positions? Why should they have less experience? Why wouldn’t they work the same hours?

      • atro_city
        3•3 days ago

        Those are all good questions, but calling it a “gender pay gap” also sets the goal of reducing or eliminating it. If you continue that, you’ll have to ask the questions:

        • Do you want to force women in the same proportional roles as men, regardless of their desires? (e.g imagine 10% of men worked in finance in Australia, would you want to force 10% of women to do the same?)
        • Is a reduced or non-existent, unadjusted paygap really the outcome you desire? There are many ways to reach it and not all of them nice
        • What if you do find out that the answers to the questions you pose are biological? Would that be acceptable?

        I would find it much better to concentrate on opportunity inequality, something that is common to all humans. Not everybody can get good education, can be lucky enough to be born into wealth, is born in good area/country, has access to the same institutions, etc. . If we focused on those basic things, we’d have more people freely choosing their own paths and a happier society overall.