"Progress in closing Germany's gender pay gap appears to be slowing, official data showed Tuesday, with a much more pronounced gap in the west of the country than in the east. The unadjusted pay gap for 2025 was unchanged on the previous year at 16 percent, according to the federal statistics office (Destatis). In 2024 it had fallen from 18 percent to 16 percent."
"In eastern Germany the unadjusted gap was meanwhile much lower than in western Germany, at just 5 percent versus 17 percent. On the basis of the latest Eurostat data available from 2023, Germany's pay gap is the fifth largest in the European Union, behind Hungary, Czechia, Austria and Latvia, and well above the EU average of 12 percent. READ ALSO: Why is the gender pay gap so big in German-speaking countries?"
"Economist Katharina Wrohlich of the German Institute for Economic Research told AFP that Germany lagged behind on the issue partly because German women were likelier to work part-time than those in the Nordics and Netherlands and partly because of a "selection effect". "In Italy only about 55 percent of women work, whereas it is 75 percent plus in Germany," she said. "And in these countries where fewer women work, Italy being a good example, the few who do work often take high-paying roles.""
Germany's unadjusted gender pay gap remained at 16 percent in 2025, unchanged from the previous year after declining from 18 percent in 2024. Eastern Germany's unadjusted gap stands at 5 percent, while western Germany records 17 percent. Eurostat 2023 figures place Germany fifth-largest in the EU, above the 12 percent average. The adjusted pay gap, controlling for education and employment history, is 6 percent, which likely represents an upper bound because accounting for career breaks would reduce it. Contributing factors include a higher prevalence of part-time work among women and selection effects; more women work full-time in the east.
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