Logib
Logib was a widely applicable Excel-based self-test tool that made it possible to easily check equal pay between women and men in a company or a public institution. Using Logib, an initial picture of how great the wage inequality ( gender pay gap ) is in a company and which parts of it cannot be explained by differences in the personal qualifications of the employees or in job-related characteristics, but rather are due to gender. If the gender effect is statistically significant, there is suspicion of wage discrimination. This can then be further clarified with other analyzes .
Logib in Switzerland
Logib was developed in 2006 by the Bureau for Labor and Social Policy Studies BASS on behalf of the Federal Office for Equality between Women and Men EBG for Switzerland and is based on the same method that is also used for wage controls in Swiss procurement. The technical implementation was carried out by Rothen ecotronics. Logib is suitable for companies with at least 50 employees. The software can be downloaded from the EBG website and used by the companies themselves. The practical guide "Logib step by step" supports this self-test.
Logib international
Logib was adapted for Germany ( Logib-D ) and Luxembourg (Logib-Lux) in 2009 . The EU is also promoting Logib as a possible instrument for reducing wage inequality (Jan 2011). The UN has also shown interest in the instrument: It was presented in February 2011 at the 55th session of the Women's Rights Commission.
The Logib method
Logib is based on economic-statistical analysis methods. The central component is the regression analysis method . Regression analysis is commonly used for macroeconomic discrimination estimates. Under certain conditions (sufficient company size, sufficient proportion of women), the procedure can also be applied to individual companies. The method makes it possible to measure the isolated influence of various factors on wages: In the standardized Logib analysis, it is determined which part of the wage difference between women and men is due to personal qualifications (education, seniority and potential employment experience, so-called "human capital factors") or can be explained by differences in job-related factors (professional position and level of requirement) and which proportion can be attributed to gender and is therefore potentially discriminatory. Another component of the instrument is the summary assessment of the wage situation using descriptive-statistical methods. These serve as the basis for any clarification of the gender-specific wage situation in a company and provide information about the extent of the average wage difference between women and men and about differences within the same age groups, training levels and hierarchical levels. Another important indicator is the proportion of women according to education, age and at the various hierarchical levels.
Logib as part of the equal pay drive
One of Logib's great strengths is its ease of distribution and handling. Companies that find a problem in this test are also often motivated to solve it. A challenge for this measurement method is implicitly or explicitly existing gender-discriminatory job evaluations in the companies and correspondingly defined functional levels, for example in the form of lower ranking and remuneration of jobs dominated by women. Logib cannot directly measure whether the existing evaluations contain discrimination, but it can often be determined indirectly. Since Logib only differentiates between five types of occupational position and four requirement levels, inequalities that exist within one of these broad groups are reflected in a poor Logib result and are thus recognized as potentially discriminatory. However, Logib does not claim to replace gender-based job evaluation. It is an important aid, but not the only strategy for realizing equal pay between women and men.
Logib was also used in the Swiss “Equal Pay Dialogue” project (2009–2014), which the social partners and the Swiss federal administration jointly support. Aim of the project: Min. 100 companies should voluntarily check whether they are complying with equal pay and take measures if necessary. By the end of the project, 51 companies had participated.
Application in public procurement
Logib analyzes are also used in Switzerland for wage controls in public procurement. Since a negative result can lead to sanctions here, it is taken into account that the wage can be influenced by other objective explanatory factors that are not taken into account in the standardized Logib analysis. This is why a so-called tolerance threshold of 5% was introduced. Wage discrimination is only suspected when the determined difference between women's and men's wages is significantly above the tolerance threshold. In this case, the situation will be clarified further with the company. Additional wage-relevant characteristics to be designated by the company can be integrated into the statistical analysis. Only if systematic, unexplained wage inequality between women and men persists, sanctions are provided. The tolerance threshold of 5% was introduced for procedural reasons and only for the standardized controls in procurement. From the perspective of the Swiss Equal Opportunities Act , the requirement of equal pay applies absolutely and the tolerance threshold is zero.
See also
- Income report (Austria)
literature
- Silvia Strub: Methodical procedure for checking equal pay between women and men in federal procurement. Instructions for performing the standardized review. Commissioned by the Federal Office for Equality between Women and Men (EBG), 2005 ( page no longer available , search in web archives: PDF file; 149 kB ).
- Thomazine von Witzleben: The Equal Pay Dialogue . A project by the social partners and the federal government. Final evaluation. On behalf of the Federal Office of Justice, 2014 ( PDF file; 606 kB ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Tools to help close the gender pay gap . Website of the EU Commission (accessed on April 7, 2011)
- ^ Report on the fifty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women ( English ) un.org. Archived from the original on August 1, 2019. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
- ↑ Homepage of the Equal Pay Dialogue (accessed on January 21, 2015)
- ↑ State controls in procurement in Switzerland ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 21, 2015)
