Study to Examine Discrimination in Collective Agreements

The Austrian gender pay gap is amongst the highest in the European Union. Studies show that this can be traced back to various factors like the high female part-time rate or the high amount of women working in low wage sectors. However, a high amount of the gender pay gap cannot be explained by those factors and therefore is related to discimination on grounds of sex.

Research results suggest that collective agreements are of great importance concerning gender equality.
Therefore, the study at hand aims at identifying direct od indirect discrimination on grounds of sex within 50 collective agreements.
10 of them will be examined more closely in the context of the equal pay check.

L&R Social Research was working together with the German expert Dr. Andrea Jochmann-Döll (GEFA Research and Consulting), who was involved in the devlopment of the eg-check.