Estonia had the highest gender pay gap at 21.3 per cent, followed by Austria (18.4 per cent), Switzerland and Czechia (both 17.9 per cent).

Luxembourg (-0.7 per cent) was the only country with a negative figure, meaning women earned slightly more than men.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    Those are all good questions, but calling it a “gender pay gap” also sets the goal of reducing or eliminating it. If you continue that, you’ll have to ask the questions:

    • Do you want to force women in the same proportional roles as men, regardless of their desires? (e.g imagine 10% of men worked in finance in Australia, would you want to force 10% of women to do the same?)
    • Is a reduced or non-existent, unadjusted paygap really the outcome you desire? There are many ways to reach it and not all of them nice
    • What if you do find out that the answers to the questions you pose are biological? Would that be acceptable?

    I would find it much better to concentrate on opportunity inequality, something that is common to all humans. Not everybody can get good education, can be lucky enough to be born into wealth, is born in good area/country, has access to the same institutions, etc. . If we focused on those basic things, we’d have more people freely choosing their own paths and a happier society overall.