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- Women in Switzerland worked for free until Saturday, February 20, while men had already received their salary on January 1.
- The day marks “Equal Pay Day”, which is calculated from the difference in wages between the sexes.
- The discriminatory proportion of pay inequality, that is, the proportion for which there are no understandable reasons, is 14.4 percent, as reported by Business and Professional Women Switzerland (BPW Switzerland).
The organization is based on average salaries in the private sector. There are no understandable reasons why a woman should earn less than a man for the same job and performance, writes BWP. If you add the public sector, the difference drops to just under 12 percent, explains SRF business editor Charlotte Jacquemart.
The revised Equal Opportunity Act went into effect last summer. This forces companies with more than 100 employees to periodically examine wages for discrimination. That’s not much, and it still depends on what exactly you measure, but it’s better than nothing, says business editor Jacquemart.
The passage of a snail pays equally
“Equal Pay Day” was on March 15, twelve years ago, writes the trade union organization Travail.Suisse. In terms of equal pay, things are only progressing at a snail’s pace in Switzerland. The association observed with concern how the discriminatory part of the wage differentials was developing. According to figures released in 2020, the value in the private sector increased from 39.6 percent in 2008 to almost 43 percent in 2016.
