The gender paygap in the 2017 German elections. Below left the main opposition goes with 'who works 100% shouldn't earn 21% less'. Why should this win a man's vote?

ThatNinaGAL · 2017-08-27T13:04:05+00:00

Men have wives, daughters, sisters, friends... if the pay gap were real, promising to address it would be a great way to court the votes of most men. I mean, I'm not black, but I certainly felt motivated to vote for the county commissioner who was brave enough to mention that our school zoning was gerrymandered to increase racial segregation...

2017-08-27T10:15:01+00:00

Below right the ruling party shows its desperation for population increase. Above left The Greens, long since taken over by the PC agenda, go for vague smoke and mirrors. Above right I don't think anyone cares in the slightest.

ralphswanson · 2017-08-27T14:17:03+00:00

Who produces 100% shouldn't earn 21% less.

The original slogan is advocating that all full-time jobs should have the same wages and benefits. Pampered SJWs don't want that at all.

HiilestTehtyAffena · 2017-08-27T19:07:22+00:00

The problem is that women don't work 100% but about 80% of what men work (when they work full-time, of course in rich countries more an more women are working only part time.).

andejoh · 2017-08-27T20:19:08+00:00

Who works 100% doesn't get paid 21% less. That's how it works.

ThirdTurnip · 2017-08-28T02:20:39+00:00

The number I'm interested in is workplace fatality rate. I can't find that for Germany by gender. Mmmmm.

It's available for the US though in wikipedia and on a government website.

The fatality rate is 11 to 13 times higher in men. Let's put that on the same scale as the 21% wage gap.

Female fatalities = 344

Male fatalities = 4492

Fatality gap = 4492-344 = 4148

Fatality gap as percentage = (4148 / 344) * 100 = 1205%

KDulius · 2017-08-27T10:19:19+00:00

It will win a mans vote because we have this in built "protect the women" drive that takes a lot to overcome

2017-08-28T07:55:20+00:00

Just for the sake of completeness I searched for news on the election poster. Bavarian Rundfunk, a respected source in Bavaria - not so much here in Lower Saxony, rebuts the statistics on the poster. Bavaria of course is deeply CSU - the Bavarian opponents of the SPD, and this news article does appear to be essentially copy/pasted from their website:

http://www.br.de/nachrichten/faktencheck/spd-wahlplakat-uebertreibt-lohnluecke-fuer-frauen-100.html

Machine translation from the dreaded google was perfectly readable IMO. Whichever language you choose to view it from the maths is the same.

The first shot, of many, which whittled the figure ever nearer to zero is this quote from the Federal Statistical Office : "Almost three quarters of the unadjusted gender pay gap can be attributed to structural differences (...)..."

IMHO the SPD, pandering to the female vote, with a strikingly visual feminist agenda, at a time when disaffected and disadvantaged young men are flirting with the "further right than at present" is grossly cynical and short sighted. They would much rather win over women from the middle classes than they would rescue struggling males who may propel the right into 3rd placed party in parliament.

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