In Germany, men earn on average 21% more than women. To denounce this inequality of treatment, the Berlin transport company BVG reduced by 21% the price of public transport tickets for women on Monday March 18, equal pay day in Germany. Berliners had to pay that day so 5.50 € per ticket instead of the 7 € in normal price.
Women earn 21% less than men because they work more often part-time and in lower-paying professions, says the German newspaper Der Spiegethe. If we exclude these factors, the pay gap between men and women narrows and women earn about 6% less than men for the same job.
If this day is a way of raising public awareness of persistent inequalities between men and women on wages, public transport users are divided on the scope of this symbolic measure. Some regret that it is confined to a single day in the year or that it does not shake things up more.
Pay equity, globally still a myth
In France men receive, on average, a salary that is 22.8% higher than that of women, recalled theObservatory of inequalities in 2017.
Nordic countries like Sweden, Iceland and Finland are the best in the world when it comes to pay equity. A World Economic Forum report published in December 2018 concluded that the gender pay gap would not be fulfilled that within 202 years.
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