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On Thursday, Equal Pay Day this year, women have little reason to celebrate. They still earn 20 percent less than men. The crisis does not change that, on the contrary.
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The gender pay gap has narrowed in Austria in recent years. The economist Mader talks about “mini steps”.
When many men work in the head office, they realize what women can do and automatically take on a higher proportion of the unpaid work, leading to greater equality in the world of work. That was a theory at the beginning of the confinement. It came in another way. “When it comes to equality, nothing happens automatically,” says Katharina Mader, an economist at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, who showed in a study that women are much more likely than men to be locked up while …
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