1. The project’s title derives from a pun with the German word ‘verdienen’ which stands for ‘to earn’ as well as for ‘to be entitled to’ or ‘to deserve something’.
What does a woman earn and what does she deserve – in both ways it’s our opinion that women in 2016 should make enough money and be structurally secured to accomplish financial and economic independence.
As a short introduction of the project we suggest following agenda for this presentation:
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2. Structure Background of the project Goals of the project
Target groups of the project
Work packages
Basic info:
What, when, who and whereabouts of the project
Background:
Why the project was initiated and what it’s based on
Goals:
Where do we want to go with it?
Target groups:
Who do we want to reach? Who do we need to achieve our goals?
Work packages:
What we have planned during the run of the project to help our case

3. 2. Background of the Project
What do young women want regarding their work life?
To stand on their own feet
To earn plenty of money
Red: Women
Blue: Men
What do young women want from the work environment?
Jutta Allmendinger conducted elaborate research regarding this question. One of her conclusions is that young people aim to stand on their own feed – to be financially independent.
96 % of young women found this to be the most important part of their professional life. So for women, even more than men, it is important to be independent from a partner and/or state.
Their wish does not reflect on reality, however.
By focussing on young women and their needs in terms of economic independence, the project puts this discrepancy on the agenda. It also continuously integrates those persons concerned by implementing a monitoring group (more in a couple of minutes).
To have a career
Source: Allmendinger et al. (2013: 56).

4. Economic Independence in Comparison
2. Background of the Project
Economic Independence in Comparison
Graphic: Shares of employees aged 25 to 60 years with a gross monthly income below economic independence in Germany (2010)
Below long-term economic independence
Beforehand some essential facts:
Almost every third woman is unable to finance her immediate needs.
Almost two out of three woman is unable to finance her long-term needs: taking precautions for unemployment or save for a pension etc.
Figures become even more drastic if a child is involved.
It is inevitable: Even in Germany economic independence is not reality!
Possible reasons include:
Work related issues: limited contracts, part time jobs, so called minijobs, other precarious working conditions.
Political framework: fiscal disincentives, minijobs, insufficient options for day care.
Social framework: traditional roles and stereotypes.
Below short-term economic independence
Source: Own graphic based on Pimminger (2012).

5. 2. Background of the Project
Life Course
Arranging work and family life
Gender time gap
Structure of earnings / low-wage sector
Gender pay gap
Continuity of employment
Return to employment after parental leave
Low-paid professions
Less professional development in companies & administration
Gender stereotypes
Apprenticeship
or professional education
Working Phase I
Founding a Family
Working Phase II
Pension
Gender pension gap
Choice of
profession
Poverty in old age
Where does this issue come from?
Society, state affairs, and personal reasons influence the phenomenon causing women to be financially dependent.
Since the reasons are diverse and individual we need to take the entire life course into account – the so called life course perspective!
In life, a woman passes several junctions: education, first job (entry level), founding a family and returning back to work, and pension. Especially in the early stages of life, women make decisions that sustainably influence their economic independence and their future life course.
There are two influences to the decision making process: the individual (which profession to choose, how well/low paid, when to return to work after a parental leave) and institutional level.
To illustrate the consequences of these decisions, we should emphasize the gender pension gap of more than 50 %.
Early career planning
Career development & mentoring in companies & administration
Early negotiation processes within a relationship
Early planning of the return to employment
Childcare and long-term care
Fiscal disincentives
Source: Own graphic.

6. Gender differences in the labour market
Gap between the work volumes:
women work more often in (often minor) part-time jobs and interrupt their employment for longer periods than men.

7. Gender differences in the labour market
Horizontal segregation:
Women and men do different jobs.
Predominantly women work in the service industry.
Women
Men
Total employees
in millions.
Full time
Part time
Full time
Part time
Agriculture
Mining
Manufacturing
Construction
Trading
Transport
Hospitality
Communication
Financial
Management Services
Public Services
Education
Health Care
Other services
In total
Employment subject to social security contributions by sector, gender and working hours, in % in Germany, 06/2013 6
Equal Pay Day Die Entgeltlücke zwischen Frauen und Männern

8. Gender differences in the labour market
Vertical segregation:
Women and men work in different positions.
Women attain management positions less often than men.
Percentage of women in DAX boards

9. 3. Goals of the project Economic Independence of Women
Equal Participation in the Labour Force
Equal Pay
Economic Independence of Women
Fair Working Conditions
Goals:
The project is not implemented as a problem solver but rather as a means of raising awareness as an important step to change the agenda!
We aim to:
Raise awareness for the topic of economic independence and to demand fundamental conditions to achieve economic independence.
Provide intelligible information on social media and our website, also as a means of dialogue.
Information based on academic and reliable studies.
Discuss the issues and possible solutions with our target groups (next slide).

10. 4. Target Groups of the Project
(Young) women
Strengthening awareness for options in professional life
raising awareness for economic independence
Trade unionists
Strengthening awareness
Provide information
Approach young women
Works and staff councils
Identify problems in companies and administrations
Explore and develop options for action
Politicians
Claim life course perspective for gender equality policies
Reduce disincentives
Who are our target groups?
In order to set the agenda thoroughly we need to integrate a diverse and potent audience.
We involve:
young women as our mainly affected group, as well as
trade unionists,
works and staff councils for the operational point of view and
politicians for the institutional perspective.
Since our project is set to be a process we are able to incorporate impulses and ideas of our target groups into our agenda.
Opportunities to exchange and discuss

11. 5. Work packages Events Information Dissemination Flyer Homepage
Social Media
Web Game
Events
Open Space Workshop
Workshops for works and staff councils, trade unionists and politicians
Expert conference
Information
State of research
Continuously: providing comprehensible data and studies for our target groups
How do we accomplish this?
Our work packages consist of information, events and dissemination
Info:
State of academic research
Adapting those results for our target groups and
providing these information on our homepage and social media sites
Topics derive from life course perspective:
Choosing a profession: working conditions, earning patterns, gender ratio per job
Work phase: parental leaves, returning to work, conditions/actions implemented by employer, career options, negotiations with life partner
Pension: poverty, gender pension gap
Events:
Open space workshop with institutional, political and operational representatives
Workshops
Expert conference in October 2015
Dissemination:
Flyer, Homepage, Social Media and web game
Accordingly our project is accompanied by a coordination group, a steering group and a monitoring group
Coordination: project team, department leader Anja Weusthoff, relevant representative in federal ministry
Steering: see above, additionally academic leaders in subject and representatives of our member unions
Monitoring: about 20 young women, union members, for discussion of project content and process
Coordination Group, Steering Group & Monitoring Group

12. Online-Quiz: final rehearsal
Tool to sentizise young women at the beginning of their employment history to the risk on the job market and the meaning of economic independency.
Eleven questions about important life descisions. Depending on the answers the user is attributed to life type/ role: cirkus director, snake charmer, tightrope dancer, wizards assistant
, DGB-Projekt "Was verdient die Frau? Wirtschaftliche Unabhängigkeit!"

13. Homepage www.was-verdient-die-frau.de
Social
Media
Our homepage is the focal information point:
Find info per subject or target group for easy orientation.
Implementing and connection with social media.

14. Thank you for your attention. Further information: www
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