Gender Overall Earnings Gap – Die Schweiz hinkt bei der Einkommensgleichheit hinterher | Ob unbezahlte Arbeit oder Pensionskasse: Ein neuer Bericht des Bundesrats zeigt die deutlichen Einkommensunterschiede zwischen Mann und Frau. Was muss sich ändern?
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DeepL translation in English:
**Switzerland lags behind in income equality**
Whether it’s unpaid work or pension funds: a new report by the Federal Council shows the clear income differences between men and women. What needs to change?
Samira Marti, Basel SP National Councillor, had written a postulate to the Federal Council in 2019. It states that the Federal Council should clarify in a report how the Gender Overall Earnings Gap (GOEG) and other important data on unpaid work and wage discrimination can be regularly collected or calculated and published in future as time series data.
This report is now available and for the first time the GOEG has been calculated for Switzerland. In addition to the known wage inequality (19 per cent), other points were analysed.
**”Gender Overall Earnings Gap (GOEG)**
The GOEG is a synthetic indicator developed and calculated by the EU statistical authority Eurostat. According to the report, it depicts the differences in earned income between 15- to 64-year-old women and men. The model has been “swissified”. (see report above)”
**Gender Overall Earnings Gap**
All things considered, women of working age in Switzerland earned 43.2 per cent less than men in 2018. In 2018, Switzerland was among the countries with the largest overall earned income gaps between women and men.
**Gender Pension Gap
In 2020, the average pension of women was 35,840 Swiss francs; that of men 54,764 Swiss francs. The average annual total pension of women in 2020 is thus 18,924 francs lower than that of men. In a European comparison, Switzerland is one of the countries with a relatively high gender pension gap.
**Unpaid work**
Women spent more time on domestic and family work (30 hours per week compared to 19 hours). Conversely, men spent more time on paid work on average (31 hours per week compared to 21 hours).
**Political reactions**
“Samira Marti thinks it is important that the report was done. “It is enormously important to get the reality mapped in the bare figures. The result is very shocking.” Women and men do the same amount of work, but women are still in such a worse economic position. “It also shows in the report that having children and starting a family is a poverty risk for women. Politicians have still not solved this problem.
What should change in the future, according to Marti? “Important women’s jobs, especially in nursing, must be better paid. Men must also do their part in unpaid family and care work.” According to Marti, childcare must also be strengthened.
“FDP National Councillor Andri Silberschmidt, also born in 1994, explains: “Women work more in part-time jobs and therefore earn less. But we have an upward trend: Women’s labour market participation is increasing and that’s why their income will also increase.” He agrees with Marti that men should work more at home. “In my generation, this is a matter of course.”
He is critical of a general wage demand, as Marti calls for. “You have to pay better wages, but in the end it’s the consumer who pays. And here the question is whether this willingness is there to pay more for a product.” The framework conditions as a whole need to be changed, for example in childcare or taxation, says the Zurich native. “Individual taxation is needed.””
Oh boy, this is going to be an interesting thread, let me grab a 100-liter bucket of popcorn…
Let’s get my Reddit r/FragileMaleRedditor bingo going:
[ ] “But women retire earlier”
[ X] “But women don’t serve in the military”
[ ] “But women don’t die in wars”
[ ] “But men work harder”
[ ] “But women are lazy”
[ ] “But women are better parents so they should be the primary caretaker”
[ ] “But men die earlier”
[ ] “But the comparison isn’t accurate”
[ ] “But women take more maternity leave”
[ ] “But women have to take care of the children so should be paid less”
[X] “Why would a stay at home parent ‘get paid’?”
The one thing i am pissd about is advocates that never read the study that is made every year by the BSF.
Clearly shows many obvious reasons why there is a difference besides things that are harder to get data of.
Sick and tired of hearing that it’s all about discrimination when it’s not that simple.
Society would have to change drastically as a whole which takes time. And many people dont underdtand that.
Women do not simply go “oh shit lets become CEO because i wanna fight the difference!”
The study is not too hard. It’s about 150 pages which shows clear differences in choices.. even like, if you have a man and a women working the exact same for the same hpurly wage there is a difference because men work on avg. More hours. What now? Limit working hours?
And right now for example with the AHV initiative people demand change NOW which is simply, not that simple.
well we men have to pay extra for the army so its fair
More men are homeless, criminal or in prison. It seems men are more willing to take risks. And that leads to men will be more prominent in the extremes (both in winning and in losing).
We live in a society were nothing stands in the way for a women to start a tech-startup and get fucking rich with it (or fails and has to write insolvency). The idea to see the the world in collectives and see its only fair if the collectives will all have an equal outcome is not liberal. We should focus on a society that looks at everyone as an individual, and if an individual is discriminated we should not tolerate that. But trying to messure discrimination by looking at the outcome of collectives will not lead to a fair society.
What I see in all of this is hoping for equality of opportunity while trying to force equality of outcome.
Equality of outcome is absolutely bonkers and a horribly anti-liberal idea by definition because it tries to implement group-defined contingents to every position at every level with no space for the unevenness of what boils down to repartition of skill amongst a group of people. That makes it absolutely insane because it’s a recursive problem that goes all the way down to the individual.
In the meantime we have places like Norway or Finland that have highly liberal and equalitarian policies, in which that same sort of cleavage as income disparity have deepened, instead of leveled.
Does the income disparity exist? Yes, I believe that study shows it quite clearly. Is the main factor causing it some form of discrimination? I believe there isn’t enough evidence to suggest that because most of the gap can be explained away by many, many different factors.