Austria - Equal Pension Day highlights gender pay gap - August 31, 2022

On 3 August, authorities marked the occasion of Equal Pension Day - the day where on average a man has received as much money from the pension system as a woman would for the entire year. As an official statement by local authorities in Vienna, this shows the huge gender pay gap in the pension system, around 41%, which is largely the result of women doing most of the unpaid work.

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