Salary differences between man and woman
Questions about the issue of the difference in salaries between men and women are becoming more and more common. Are women discriminated against in the Austrian market? And why is the "gap" between men and women often still so big?
In terms of equal rights in the labor market, Austria is hardly a leader. Women still receive less salary than men for the same job and training. But not only that. In other areas of professional life you can see the differences. According to online portal salary.de get on average four times more men a company car, than women. In addition, the budget for women is less for a car than for male colleagues.
Of course, one has to think of this issue also at the point that concerns the pregnancy in women. Women stay with the children much more often than men and the second have more work experience for this reason. The majority of these scissors can then be explained by the children. Women simply set other priorities after pregnancy and often choose jobs that make them more flexible.
But that does not explain the difference in wages. After all, there are also women who can not get pregnant, continue to gain work experience and can compete with the opposite sex. Here, the difference can often be explained by the fact that in many cases women are simply the worse transformers than men. When in doubt, women are not asking for a salary increase. Men prefer to ask too much rather than too little.
Networks also play a role in the salary component. For example, if you have a manager who prefers a more conservative role model, it may well happen that a man is preferred. For example, women are still present on executive boards and this is by no means due to insufficiently qualified women.
But what can one do as an "affected person" in order to adjust his salary to that of his colleague?
At the moment there is no law in Austria stating the extent to which salaries have to be balanced with the same training, experience, etc. That means, if you want to earn more, you have to go to the boss for better or worse and convince him to pay you more salary. In Norway, however, such a regulation has already been made, which states that 40% of the board members must be women. Such a law would also make sense in Austria in many industries and areas. Eventually, this is forcing companies to hire more women. This in turn means that companies also deal more with the salary structure of women and so the general salary level in the company increases.
To what extent and when the difference will arise remains to be seen. However, good role models such as Norway could soon make history of salary differences between men and women.
