The debate about the salary difference between men and women is not current. Already in its last annual report, the National Institute of Statistics (INE), reported that men earn, on average almost 26,000 euros while women stay at 20,051 euros. These data imply that the salary of women is 23% lower than that of men.
If the data is already worrying, the situation is much more complicated in the ages in which maternity is most often chosen. A phenomenon that experts have baptized as "maternity bill" and that further widens the wage gap in our country.
What are the labor consequences of motherhood for a woman?
There is a greater difficulty in finding employment.
Request for leave or reduction of working hours.
Decrease your work projection.
At this point it should be clarified that the arrival of children has very different consequences in the careers of men and women in all European countries, according to data collected by Eurostat. While the career of men increases, that of women stagnates or decreases.
The wage gap in data
On the other hand, Comisiones Obreras has also presented its report "The wage gap, a democratic bankruptcy factor: inequality, precariousness, temporality, partiality", where in 2015 76% of women worked part-time compared to 24% of men . With a maximum of 680 euros per month, women would have an average salary of 399 euros and men 432 euros.
"The care tasks fall on women for lack of co-responsibility and public service deficits, and this determines the type of working day and the possibilities of promotion, or even ends up taking women away from employment, with the salary consequences," cofirma Elena Blasco, Secretary of Women and Equality of Workers Commissions.
And the leave? Women again become protagonists without wanting to. According to the Ministry of Employment, 90.57% of these work permits in Spain were requested by women last year. This shows again a tangible reality: the care of minors falls mostly to women.
And if in wages the thing was already designated, it could not be different in pensions, where men charge an average of 1,236.34 euros and women 785.18 euros.
There is much to do
More and more are proposals made by the Government, unions and other associations To finish breaking the wage barriers that separate men from women. Some of them are:
Transparency in business information: so that workers can know the different levels of compensation.
Obligation of companies to communicate to union representatives the salaries broken down by categories and genres.
Possibility of performing salary audits.
Law of wage transparency.
Introduce into the business culture the concept that leave and reduction of working hours can also be requested by men.
Equate paternity and maternity leave.
End sexism in some jobs.
On a day like today, European Day for Equal Salary, all these measures mean one more step for breaking the wage gap between men and women and for real equality.
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