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Gender pay inequalities persist in Germany

In a Berlin company, employees agreed to answer the interviewers' questions about wage disparities. In this company, each sat how much other employees earn because the amount of wages is published online.

According to one employee, this allows women to know how much others earn and to be able to appreciate the value of their work.

Transparent salaries to fight inequality between men and women are an evidence for the founder of this company.

In his opinion, if we really take feminism seriously, it is a fight that absolutely must be fought because women’s salaries are very high than those of men and only transparency can solve this problem.

And yet, despite the entry into force of the Wage Transparency Act a year ago, Germany is lagging behind. According to an association which advocates for parity, only 12% of SMEs and 28% of large companies have made wages transparent. The gender gap remains one of the highest in Europe.

According to the president of the association, in Germany the difference is 21% for 2 years or no change. But what she finds even more shocking is when 2008 the gap was 23%. So it has narrowed by only 2% in 9 years. More part-time jobs, fewer managerial positions, in the German labour market women have a hard time.

They are also under-represented in political institutions, which does not make things easier, according to environmental MEP Beate Muller-Gemmeke. In the Bundestag, only 30% of the deputies are women.

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