Equal and less equal, what does the employment diversity index reveal?

Wage inequality continues to grow, according to the Employment Diversity Index published today by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

According to the index, there was an increase in the employment rate of various groups in Israeli society, but their wages did not increase.

Between Ashkenazi

23/06/2022

Thursday, 23 June 2022, 16:02 Updated: Sunday, 26 June 2022, 08:13

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission publishes the Employment Diversity Index this morning (Sunday).

The index examines and ranks the representation and wage equality of different population groups in 20 major industries in the private sector, local authorities, the government and the public sector in general.

According to the index, in 2020 women will still earn between 55% (in the textile manufacturing and apparel industry) and 80% (in the financial services, legal and accounting industries) of men's wages, just as it was in 2015. That is, no real improvement over the last 7 years.

The pay gap between men and women is particularly pronounced in industries that pay high wages, and especially for academic women, where the wage ceiling is higher.

In these industries there are women who manage to reach very high wage levels relative to the other women employed in the industry, for example in industries such as computer programming, financial services and research and development, where the average wage of women was in 2020

Arab workers have increased their integration mainly in the blue-collar and public sector industries.

The improvement in higher education among the labor force from the sector has helped to increase the representation of Arab citizens in these industries.

At the same time, in the high-wage white-collar industries, the integration of Arab workers was more limited.

Among Arab men, there was an increase in employment in less than half of the major industries, and less than among Arab women.

Moreover, Arab men without academic education even experienced a decline in representation in a number of industries in the private and public sectors.

Increases in representation are also often not accompanied by increases in equal pay.

In the computer programming industry, there has been a widespread change in the diversity efforts that have brought more Arab Arab men into the industry.

There is an increase in the representation of academic Arab men and an increase in equal pay, and the data indicate a successful integration of some Arab men in this industry, in jobs that match their skills.

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Not a diverse industry, despite some positive trends such as the combination of ultra-Orthodox women and Arab men. (Photo: ShutterStock)

There is no improvement in wages among Ethiopians

In the six years between the beginning of 2015 and the end of 2020, there has been a widespread increase in the representation of non-academic Ethiopians, men and women, and academic Ethiopians - in most of the private and public sectors in which they were employed in 2015. However without an increase in wage equality.

However, Ethiopians, especially academics, are still employed in limited parts of the economy and hardly enter new employment sectors.

Ethiopian academics, men and women, have seen almost no improvement in their wage equality in the last six years.

The wages of academic women in employment services fell from 67% of the wage of the comparison group in 2015 to 60% in 2020.

However, there is an increase in the representation of Ethiopian women with academic education in prestigious industries like law, finance and insurance and computer programming.

However, this increase in representation in these industries is not accompanied by wage increases - and their wages are very low in relation to the general average wage in these industries.

Commissioner for Equal Employment Opportunities, Adv. Miriam Kabha (Photo: Private)

Wage inequality among the ultra-Orthodox continues

And there are also encouraging trends, such as an increase in the employment of non-academic ultra-Orthodox women in the white-collar industries and not in the blue-collar and commercial industries, has intensified.

This can be attributed to the professional training courses that the state leads and whose purpose is to encourage the employment of ultra-Orthodox women in these industries, especially in the computer programming industry.

At the same time, starting in 2019, the increase stopped, and their representation even decreased compared to the previous year, because although their number increased, the industry itself grew at a higher rate.

In any case, the increase in the representation of ultra-Orthodox women in the programming industry is not accompanied by an increase in equal pay.

Despite the accumulated seniority in the industry - they still earn on average only about 55% of the salary of non-Haredi Jews.

Also, ultra-Orthodox academic men increased their integration into employment mainly in the services and insurance industries, more than men without academic education.

However, the wage equality of ultra-Orthodox men, academics and non-academics has not improved and even decreased.

: "There is great importance in creating an economy where there is representation and integration of all population groups, at all levels and jobs without pay gaps. Only when we all work together and collaboratively can we take employment diversity

for granted and assimilate the value of equality in the employment market.

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