2024-10-30 03:02:00
Whether care, trade or childcare: the proportion of women is high, but the wages are not.
Of the 16 systemically important professional groups, the proportion of women in 11 groups is at least 50 percent and often far higher, as the Momentum Institute points out on the occasion of Equal Pay Day on November 1st. And the wages here are often below average.
From Equal Pay Day onwards, women in full-time employment in Austria will, statistically speaking, work “for free” on average, which is only a single day less than in the previous year. Whether in care, childcare, cleaning or trade, wages in all these areas are below the average gross wage per hour in the economy as a whole, according to the analysis. Only for doctors, academic health professions, pharmacists, teachers and IT technicians are wages higher than in the economy as a whole.
The proportion of female migrants is also high in systemically relevant professions: around half of the female kitchen helpers and cleaning staff have a migrant background. Four out of ten cashiers and a third of the nurses and childcare workers are female and migrant. And women with a migrant background would be significantly more disadvantaged in terms of income than other women. While, according to the Momentum Institute, women working full-time earn an average of 17 percent less than men, women with a migrant background earn 25 percent less, while those without a migrant background only earn 11 percent less. The difference is highest in Vorarlberg at 23.4 percent, followed by Salzburg at 20.7 percent.
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