A new study claims that Germany has the highest wage gap between men and women. While most of Europe and the USA are closer the gap, Germany’s gender wage gap doesn’t seem to increase.
Data from the government statistics bureau claimed that “since 2000, German working women on average have gone from earning 26 percent less than men to making 24 percent less than men in 2006.”
According to a NYTimes article “There are many reasons that Germany has continually been in the European cellar. Outright gender discrimination is one, researchers say. Maternity leave is another: men get promoted while their female colleagues take time off to have children.
Some 60 percent of married couples with children younger than 3 follow the same pattern: fathers keep working full time, while mothers stay at home.”
It is this traditional pattern and the fact that most women don’t take the same high paying positions that male counterparts take. The fact is, often the traditional standpoint still stays: Women watch the kids, men go to work…
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