Income gap between male and female remained wide in Austria in 2008, representing an income gap of 34 percent.
Figures of Statistics Austria published on Tuesday showed that, full-time male employees
earned 43,077 euros while female only 32, 112 euros in 2008.
Gender income gap means the difference between the average incomes of male and female employees. It reduced slightly for full- time employees in recent years. In 2004, the average male worker earned 38,249 euros, while female earned 27,827 euros, showing a difference of 37.5 percent.
However, 42.8 percent of Austrian women worked as part-time employee in 2008, while only one in eight male workers worked for part time.
Austrian gender income gab in 2008 soared to 64 percent when all the part-time employees were also taken into consideration.