Konstellationen und Mechanismen geschlechtlicher Lohn-Diskriminierung in Österreich

The starting point of this contribution is the ongoing high gender pay gap in Austria. Based on empirical case studies in three professional target groups (food-processing workers, secondary school teachers, academic engineers) we dealt with the context of wage system and working place practices, in order to provide an analysis of the reasons and the stability of wage discrimination. With the theoretical concept of relationality, social construction of gender and the gendered substructure of organizations we examined central configurations and mechanisms of pay discrimination in its normative, microsocial and collective dimensions. Results provide ideas for strategies to reduce gender pay discrimination.