Equality between women and men: Thanks to Merkel - Germany improves its ranking position

Created: 07/13/2022, 21:53

By: Kathrin Reikowski

The Merkel diamond: The chancellor is responsible for a good ranking of Germany in a male-female comparison.

© Bernd Thissen/dpa

Gender Gap: Equal Work, Equal Pay?

According to a recent report in Germany, women and men are far from equal.

Cologny - Best place for Germany since the start of the

: Germany is among the top ten for the first time when it comes to equality between men and women.

Under the auspices of the World Economic Forum, the annual report examines the so-called gender gap, i.e. the difference between men and women in terms of pay, type of job and political participation.

Overall, the WEF looks at the areas of business, education, health and politics.

Germany improves by one place compared to last year and ends up in the top 10 for the first time:

• The top 10 countries in the 2022 Gender Gap Report

• Iceland

• Finland

• Norway

• New Zealand

• Sweden

• Rwanda

• Nicaragua

• Namibia

• Ireland

• Germany

Germany wins in terms of political participation, performs worse on the labor market

Germany shines compared to many other countries in the area of ​​political participation, as the WEF reports.

The figure for the proportion of women in managerial positions over the past 50 years is the fourth highest in Europe, said a WEF spokesman.

In contrast, Germany did not fare so well in the economic participation subcategory: Germany has fallen back to 2009 levels, the spokesman said.

Among other things, the proportion of women in managerial positions and the payment for equal work are considered - this inequality was also shown by another current study

And the rating was even worse on one point: inequality in the labor market was greater than at any time since the surveys began in 2006. This is also due to the fact that care work, such as looking after children, when kindergartens and schools were always closed is still predominantly a women's task.

Even before the pandemic, unpaid work accounted for 19 percent of all working hours for men, but 55 percent for women.

Gender Gap: Closing the differences could take another 132 years

According to the WEF report, Corona has thrown back the prospect of gender equality worldwide by a generation.

One of the reasons for this is that proportionally more women lost their jobs than men during the pandemic.

If development continues as slowly as before, it will take another 132 years before the gap between the sexes is closed.

The video shows that gender inequality affects very different areas of life:

And women also perform worse than men when it comes to care work.

Gender equality ranking improved thanks to former Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)

The improved ranking position is mainly due to one woman: the former Chancellor Angela Merkel.

She brought Germany many points through her long tenure.

The number of years that a country has been governed by a female head of government is included in the index.