The gender data report for Berlin has been published. It shows that girls are better at school than boys, but later work in lower-paying jobs and thus earn less than men. They also work part-time more often.
The new one presented on Monday Gender data report [statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de] of the Berlin Senate Administration for 2019 shows that women are now more successful than men in education. Today, more women than men achieve the highest educational and professional qualifications. In 2019, 74 percent of women aged 25 to 34 had a university entrance qualification, compared to 69 percent of men. Despite this development, it is still not easy for women.
Many women work, the professions hardly change
With a quota of around 70 percent of women, the labor force participation of women in Berlin is high. A look at the numbers, however, reveals that the choice of career is still often traditional. Accordingly, women are more likely to work in professions and economic sectors with lower income levels and fewer career opportunities. As a result, women continue to earn less than men on average, despite rising incomes overall. And this despite the fact that attention has been drawn to this so-called gender pay gap for years.
In 2019, the monthly earnings of women subject to social security contributions were 18.8 percent below those of men. Women earned an average of EUR 3,107 gross, men EUR 3,825. Part-time work is also partly responsible for this – in 2019 this was 37 percent of women and 19 percent of men.
Berlin is getting more and more colorful
The gender report also shows: The Berlin population – around 3.67 million people (51 percent of them women) lived in the capital at the end of 2019 – is getting younger and more international. In addition, the forms of life are becoming increasingly different. Migration is the strongest influencing factor. The proportion of the population with a history of migration has risen to 35 percent.
The labor force participation of women with a migration history is significantly lower than that of women without a migration history. For Germans without a history of migration, the gender difference in the employment rate in 2019 was 2.7 percentage points. For Germans with a history of migration, it was 5.4 percentage points.
The average age of Berlin women in 2019 was 43.8 years, 2.4 years higher than that of men. The birth rate in 2019 was 1.4 children per woman, slightly below that of previous years.
Date: December 27, 2020, text: editorial staff, pictures: Getty Images
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