Post by account_disabled on Mar 16, 2024 6:13:26 GMT 1
Any small advance in terms of equality between women and men is of great importance: a realization learned after many years of working for this equality and being aware of the difficulties in achieving it. With this introduction I want to place this brief reflection on the pay inequality between both sexes, the so-called gender pay gap. The latest Salary Structure Survey carried out by the INE, the one from , made public this summer, tells us that the average annual salary for women represented % of that for men (, euros compared to ,), we have, therefore, a gap of % . The average earnings of women increased by % compared to , while that of men increased by %: the gap decreased by a few tenths. Given that the Workers' Statute establishes that the employer must pay the same remuneration for work of equal value, what is the reason for this large salary difference between men and women.
Since we do not see the entire business community sitting on the benches of the courts for this reason, beyond the fact that there are particular situations where this must occur, it seems clear that the causes of this gap are social and must be sought within the business itself. discriminated situation of women in the labor market : the type of contract, the working day, the occupation, the seniority... are unequal between men and women, generally with worse conditions for them. This forces us to go into detail in the analysis of the data. Thus, if we compare the hourly earnings of one AOL Email List and the other, as Eurostat does to define the gender wage gap , that is, eliminating other types of criteria such as the number of hours worked (the majority of women in part-time work, for example) For example), the gap in Spain, according to this source, is % (data refers to. Continuing with the INE data, in the case of full-time work, the number of men and women was similar for salaries less than , euros, but, from that salary level onwards, the number of men was always higher.
Among salaried people with low earnings (hourly earnings below / of the median earnings), women represent %. On the other hand, as we know, women mainly occupy sectors of activity and jobs with lower salaries; They are the majority in part-time work; proportionally to their employment rate, they are also proportional to temporary employment; They mainly take care of care , so they are the ones who take advantage of reductions in working hours, leaves of absence..., in short, all the working conditions of female discrimination contribute to wage inequality, giving rise to what we call the gender gap. If adequate measures are not implemented, the elimination of inequality can lead to decades of maintaining injustice From all this we have to deduce that, if adequate measures are not applied, the elimination of inequality can lead to decades of maintaining injustice , because, furthermore, it is not guaranteed that there will be no setbacks, if we take into account that there are very powerful factors. that cooperate in the opposite direction.
Since we do not see the entire business community sitting on the benches of the courts for this reason, beyond the fact that there are particular situations where this must occur, it seems clear that the causes of this gap are social and must be sought within the business itself. discriminated situation of women in the labor market : the type of contract, the working day, the occupation, the seniority... are unequal between men and women, generally with worse conditions for them. This forces us to go into detail in the analysis of the data. Thus, if we compare the hourly earnings of one AOL Email List and the other, as Eurostat does to define the gender wage gap , that is, eliminating other types of criteria such as the number of hours worked (the majority of women in part-time work, for example) For example), the gap in Spain, according to this source, is % (data refers to. Continuing with the INE data, in the case of full-time work, the number of men and women was similar for salaries less than , euros, but, from that salary level onwards, the number of men was always higher.
Among salaried people with low earnings (hourly earnings below / of the median earnings), women represent %. On the other hand, as we know, women mainly occupy sectors of activity and jobs with lower salaries; They are the majority in part-time work; proportionally to their employment rate, they are also proportional to temporary employment; They mainly take care of care , so they are the ones who take advantage of reductions in working hours, leaves of absence..., in short, all the working conditions of female discrimination contribute to wage inequality, giving rise to what we call the gender gap. If adequate measures are not implemented, the elimination of inequality can lead to decades of maintaining injustice From all this we have to deduce that, if adequate measures are not applied, the elimination of inequality can lead to decades of maintaining injustice , because, furthermore, it is not guaranteed that there will be no setbacks, if we take into account that there are very powerful factors. that cooperate in the opposite direction.