Did you know that even today, men still earn more than women for the same work? According to Destatis (Statistisches Bundesamt), women in Germany
earned 18% less than men in 2020. The earnings difference between men and women, the unadjusted gender
pay gap, was one percentage point lower than in 2019.
The Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into the year the average woman has to work (in addition to their earnings last year) in order to have earned what the average man had earned the entire previous year, regardless of experience or job type. In 2021, Equal Pay Day was on March 10. Learn more about income inequality on Wikipedia