Topic Highlights:
Gender Pay Gap
The third national Equal Pay Day took place on the 26th March 2010 in Germany.
This date marks the day, up until which the average woman would have had to work in order to earn as much as her male counterpart
did in 2009.
Numerous events, conferences and workshops took place on this day all over Germany. Recently the EU commission also launched a new information campaign on this topic in order to increase awareness.
Below you will find a range of information and statistics on the situation in each of the EU Member States:
Eurostat Data
Gender pay gap in unadjusted form
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chart
Gender pay gap in unadjusted form
by economic sector in 2008
The indicator is not adjusted for individual characteristics that may explain part of the earnings difference, because the aim is to give an overall picture of gender inequalities in terms of pay. The Gender Pay Gap is the consequence of various inequalities (structural differences) in the labour market such as different working patterns, differences in institutional mechanisms and systems of wage setting. Consequently, the pay gap is linked to a number of legal, social and economic factors which go far beyond the single issue of equal pay for equal work.
Further information about this data (including definitions) can be found in the Eurostat
metadata on this topic.
More data on this topic and further statistics on wages and salaries are available
in the section earnings
of the Eurostat Online Database.
Recent publications | Statistics / Data in focus
Employment gender gap in the EU is narrowing
Further information on this topic
EU Commission: GD
Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities offering information on
Gender Pay Gap
Destatis: Press
release from March 5th, 2010 - Gender Pay Gap in 2008
