Inequality at the workplace: Vorarlberg's women fight for fairness!

Inequality at the workplace: Vorarlberg's women fight for fairness!

in Vorarlberg, the state with the highest number of women in Austria in Austria, gives an alarming salary scissors between the sexes. While men earn an average of 48,000 euros gross annually, the income of women is only 26,700 euros, which is the second worst value after Tyrol. These terrifying numbers were recently published and clarify that women only receive 80 percent of their male colleagues full -time. This discrepancy has led to a sad record: on October 7, the Equal Pay Day, the free work begins for women in Vorarlberg by the end of the year, which means that they do not receive any payment for the work done compared to their male colleagues until then, such as Arbeiterkammer.at reported.

part -time quota and industries differ greatly

A frequently mentioned argument that the imbalance is due to the higher part-time quota of women is not true, as Ak expert Eva Fischer-Schweigkofler explains. Even after cleaning up the numbers, the difference in income remains serious. Women are therefore not only paid for part -time, but mostly active in poorly paid industries, such as trade. "The unequal treatment of women has a system," said the President of the Vorarlberg Chamber of Labor, Bernhard Heinzle. It calls for a comprehensive implementation of the new EU wage transparency directive, which is intended to create more clarity about gender-specific wage gaps in companies. By 2026, this should be implemented in Austrian law, which could be an opportunity to gradually reduce the existing injustice, as vorarlberg.orf explained.

In recent years, however, the situation has hardly improved, which leads to far -reaching demands for better framework conditions. In order to facilitate women's return to work and to promote a fairer division of working and family work, more than just a political will is necessary. The implementation of meaningful measures is crucial to combat systematic unequal treatment and achieve a fairer payment.