Women gain half so much money such as men

A study shows: Men earn more than women altogether clearly. Because these work to a large extent in more badly paid professions


The income differentials between men and women in Germany are larger than so far meant. To this result a study of the German institute comes for economic research (DIW), from which the daily paper Die Welt reports first. Women obtained on the average only half of the incomes of men, are called it in the analysis. The study analyzes data from the wage and income tax statistics separately according to sexes. Women reached on the average 49 percent of the pro head gross income of men. In the lower income brackets with up to 25,000 euros gross yearly incomes are women in the majority, quote the newspaper the DIW researcher Stefan Bach. But with the higher incomes the men would lie clearly in front. Thus twice as many men obtained such as women a gross income of 40,000 euros in the year. From all Germans, which annually obtain a gross income from over 75,000 euros, only 20 percent is women. In the highest class of 500,000 euros yearly incomes are it only 16 percent.

The DIW researchers compared also the incomes of employees and independent ones. Independent women came thereby on average again only on half of the income of the men. The employee women it is issued somewhat better, it obtained on average 61 percent of the earnings of the employees of men. Brook justifies the difference with the fact that women more frequently exercised professions, which were more badly paid. In addition they would have to take a break because of pregnancy and children's education more frequently in the active life than men. The income comparison of the DIW is based on data from the year 2007. Newer numbers of the income tax statistics were not present the researchers. But according to brook the realizations until today are valid. Are employed more women than still before seven years, among them are however above all mothers, who worked in part-time. The analysis of the DIW refers also high incomes also. In many earlier studies played this no role. Thus the clearly larger income differentials explained themselves in relation to earlier comparisons, said Bach.