Equal rights: This is how it is really about gender equality for international women's day
TheShould focus on the rights of women. At countless events, every year around March 8and equality discussed. However, men and women seem to disagree when it comes to the implementation of equality and equality, as a study by the market and opinion research institute YouGov, in cooperation with the Sinus Institute for Market and Social Research, showed in 2020.
Study on World Women's Day: still noticeable an imbalance when equality
According to the survey with 2,008 respondents between the ages of 18 and 69, the Germans saw equality in 2020 between men and women 61 percent realized (men: 66 percent vs. women: 56 percent). If you take a closer look at the numbers, you can see that a little more than half of the respondents (54 percent) said that, on the whole, men would enjoy benefits in society: Seven out of ten women already said that men had more advantages back then. But only four out of ten men were of this opinion. Only 10 percent of the study participants believed that women would enjoy more advantages.
According to studies: no equality in work
Now think of the years during theBack, you also remember that women often than men often than menCarIn addition - in addition to a full -time job or in favor of family care, even switched to part -time. Normally, little changed for men: the Hans Böckler Foundation found thatim mai 2020, that up to 27 percent of women, but only 16 percent of men reduced their working hours at the time.
Conversely, these study results also mean that men still have a higher income andare. Often, but during the Pandemie years, the family member was also decided with the higher incomes, which was so earned as a money earner: was no longer integrated into the care work. In the meantime it was even from “new Biedermeier” and a return to(Housewife vs. man at work) mentioned - up to 48 percent of the households surveyed fell back to this traditional roles. And now, a few years later?
If one looks at the key indicators of equality in the economy in 2023, it quickly becomes clear: equality and equality are more the exception than the rule. TheGender-Pay-Gap,So the difference of wagesOnly because of gender is loudA study by the Hans-Böckler FoundationIn January 2023, 18 percent across industries (2024: 16 percent).
If you look at the “gross hour of full -time employees”, that is, the gross wage, no better picture is emerging in direct numbers: According to the study results, women earn an average of 3.19 euros less per hour than men. Makes 25.50 euros per working day per week and full -time work per week over 100 euros. Broken down to the quintessence, this means that lower earnings of women in the present lead to lower protection in the future.
In addition, women are less likely to come into play with career -providing training than men. OneStudy of the Economic and Social Science InstituteIn March 2025, the conclusion of the fact that women are more partly part of the continuing training than men - but more often in shorter measures that would not be as career -friendly as the vocational training courses in which men took part.Gender-Training-Gap,is called that in technical jargon. The study concludes that women would be concluded, less often financial and temporal support from the company as well as less support for superiors within the company when it comes to career -providing further training. In short training courses, new working methods would often be introduced or existing knowledge refreshed, but the career would not be significantly advanced, the researchers of the new equality report, Dr. Yvonne Lott, Magdalena Polloczek and Dr. Eileen Peters, firm.
And even when it comes to further training, the situation for mothers is particularly precarious: because they are twice exposed to the double burden of job and care work, according to the researchers. Due to family obligations, 39 percent of mothers waived further training, but only 22 percent of fathers. In addition, mothers also fight internally for promotion by superiors - fathers and childless men would not have to worry about lack of support.
How can you get rid of this inequality? Actually, it would be quite easy by better supporting families and mothers and giving them more flexibility: through more flexible working hours and more operational offers for childcare, for example. In addition, hello, politicians: inside of this country - it would not hurt to create legal claims so that further training does not depend solely on the well -being of the employer.
Women's Day 2025: Equality between men and women only in 134 years
The World Economic Forum also published a terrifyingly sober statement in September 2024: Gender equality in all areas is expected to only be achieved in 134 years. Again: 134 years! Corona pandemic would have thrown back the development of gender equality for a generation. What does that mean specifically?
In the gender gap report of theFoundation of the World Economic ForumIt is confirmed what the Hans Böckler Foundation found out: Women not only increasingly took over the care work for the family from 2020 to 2024, but also lost their jobs more often than men.
If the behavior is slowly developing as it is up to date, it takes 134 years for men and women to really be equal, he concludesGender-Gap-Report- that is two years more than in 2023. With regard to the unpaidIt was also found that women did up to 55 percent unpaid work in this sector even before pandemic - men, however, only 19 percent.
But it is not only due to the care work, but also due to a lack of job chances for women: the proportion of women in higher and medium-sized management positions worldwide in half of all countries in the world was below 35 percent. In most countries and in almost all industries, men still earn more than women.
However, there is also reason to hope: after all, five countries in global parity comparison (Iceland, Norway, Finland, New Zealand, Sweden) have reached full gender equality of at least 85 percent. According to the UN Women, measuring parameters for this comparison include:
- Inquiry to wage, differences in the income of men and women
- Gender separation in training and work, lower wages in many women dominated by women and lower number of women in higher positions
- The social benefits are linked to the previous wage income, which means that the pensions and benefits on family vacation are lower for those who earn less or could not work before the benefits.
And otherwise? Otherwise you shouldn't forget that with theOn February 23, 2025, the CDU/CSU emerged as the strongest force in the Bundestag. The, the gender does not optional, but want to prohibit it. Equality? Still expandable howThis first photo of the party leadersshowed.
Women and men are not equal - say women
And how do women feel equality in the job? According to the YouGov survey of 2020, two thirds of the respondents (64 percent) stated that women and men are not equal in the professional environment, whereby women have the statement that genders are equivalent at work rejected significantly more than men (women: 76 percent vs. men: 53 percent). “In general, the data show thatEquality in private, political, media and professional environment always evaluate more positively than women, ”concludes the study. And that still applies in 2023.
