Also in the public service: women earn only about 80% of men's wages

This is according to data published today by the person in charge of salaries at the Ministry of Finance.

It also shows that childcare, a responsibility that is still more on women, reduces working hours and is one of the main causes of wage inequality.

However, as far as specific professional positions are concerned, the gap drops to individual percentages

Between Ashkenazi

01/06/2022

Wednesday, 01 June 2022, 11:50 Updated: 12:01

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The Commissioner for Wages and Employment Agreements in the Ministry of Finance, Kobi Bar-Natan, publishes today - as required by the new law on the subject - data regarding the wage gaps between women and men in the public service.

The data show that women whose employment agreement is according to the MHR rank (academics who work in the public service but without specific training for a particular position such as lawyers and economists) earn an average of 84% of men's wages. They will earn NIS 8,989 a month, even before the calculation of overtime and other wage increases enjoyed by public service workers.

It also shows that women in the administrative ranking - positions that are usually clerical, earn on average about 82% of men's wages.

So while men will earn a base salary of NIS 9,375 a month.

Women will earn NIS 8,310 a month.

This figure is also a precursor to the calculation of overtime and other wage increases enjoyed by public service employees.

There is also a pay gap between women and men in the public service in the ranking of lawyers, although the gap is significantly smaller: women in the ranking of lawyers earn on average about 96% of men's salaries, and women in senior legal rankings earn on average about 97% of men's.

When diving into numbers, it turns out that while male public service lawyers will earn NIS 13,624 a month before wage increases, women will earn NIS 13,320 a month.

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As professionalism increases and the role is more defined, the inequality between men and women in the public service decreases (Photo: ShutterStock)

The causes of wage gaps between women and men

In 2019, women worked an extra 5.6 hours less than men on average per month.

The payroll commissioner notes that women work longer hours in the office than men, while men work more outside the office.

Due to staying out of the office and working overtime - the actual number of men's actual working hours is also greater, so this is one explanation for the pay gaps.

In addition, Bar Natan points out another reason for the gaps: a different distribution of each gender within the various rankings and at the senior levels.

In the scheme of working time in the office, outside the office and overtime, it can be seen that men work an average of about 15 hours more than women.

Another reason has to do with working at a young parenting age.

During this period, there is a reduction in overtime and an increase in the utilization of sick days, so that until around the age of 40 the number of sick days reported by employees increases over the years, while the number of overtime hours decreases.

However, from the age of 40, the trend is reversed - working more overtime and reporting fewer sick days.

Another possible explanation given by the pay commissioner is related to the phenomenon of childcare.

Caring for children, especially at an early age, may reduce overtime work, due to the need to leave work relatively early and remove children from the frameworks.

In addition, child care may cause employees to report more sick days, due to child sick days.

Accordingly it has been observed that young workers who have not yet started a family and older workers who do not care for young children will work more overtime and take advantage of fewer sick days.

The Commissioner for Wages and Employment Agreements in the Ministry of Finance, Kobi Bar Natan (Photo: Official Website, None)

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