Thanks to their higher average education women earn up to 36 years with the government more than men, the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) Wednesday on the basis of own research. In the business world is the tipping point where men earn more than women, for thirty years.
For the older workers is the educational level of men is often even higher than that of women. Men take advantage of things such as work experience and their employee.
Catching up
Women are, according to the CBS working on catching up in the area of rewards. Especially when the government is the salarisverschil between the sexes in recent years dwindled.
In 2008 earnings for women in the public sector in average 16 percent less than men, in 2014, this difference is still 10 percent.
In the business sector decreased the gap from 22 to 20 percent.
work Experience
A large part of the difference has to do with characteristics such as training and employee, part-time work and work experience.
Suitably adjusted, earnings of women for the government in 2014 about 5 percent less than men, compared with 7 percent in 2008. In the industry took the corrected difference in the period from 9 to 7 percent.
The CBS can not determine whether the remaining difference has to do with discrimination or other causes.
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