4th Atlas on equality between women and men
Lots of figures: the 4th Atlas on Gender Equality was published in July 2020. The new data collection was compiled by a specialist group of federal states chaired by the federal state of Berlin, with the participation of several state statistical offices, the Federal Statistical Office, the Federal Working Group of Municipal Women's Offices and the Federal Ministry for Women's Affairs.
Of the 41 subject areas (called indicators) covered in the atlas, data on independent cities and counties is available for 13. The majority of the maps and diagrams are based on figures from the federal states and the federal government. The first atlas was published in 2009.
Below, we present ten examples of indicators for which data is available for Mainz. The latest data is compared with the previous year's figures, or with the figures collected before that, and, where available, with data from Rhineland-Palatinate and nationwide.
What figures are available for Mainz
Figures for Mainz are available for the following indicators: 1.2. Seats in local government; 2.1. Leavers without a school leaving certificate from general education schools; 2.2. Leavers with a secondary school leaving certificate from general education schools; 2.3. Leavers with a university entrance qualification; 3.1. Employees subject to social insurance contributions (employment rate); 3.2 Part-time employees subject to social insurance contributions; 3.3 Mini-jobs; 3.4 Start-ups; 3.5 Unemployment (unemployment rate); 3.6 Long-term unemployment; 3.10 Basic income support in old age; 4.3 Parental allowance and 4.5 Care of children under three years of age.
Indicator 1.2 Mandates in municipal representations
Indicator 3.1 Employees subject to social insurance contributions (employment rate)
The figures provide information on the proportion of women and men aged between 15 and 65 who are subject to social insurance contributions, measured in relation to the respective population. Civil servants, self-employed persons, and mini-jobbers are not included.
Compared to 2016, a higher percentage of women in Mainz were in employment subject to social insurance contributions in 2018. Nationwide, the figure was 56.5 percent for women and 63.3 percent for men.
Indicator 3.2 Part-time work Employees subject to social insurance contributions
Here, too, only part-time employees who are subject to social security contributions and are between 15 and 65 years of age are counted. Compared to 2016, slightly more women and men in Mainz are employed part-time. However, the proportion of women for the whole of Rhineland-Palatinate is significantly higher. In contrast, the proportion of men in Mainz is almost twice as high as in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Across Germany, 48.0 percent of women subject to social insurance contributions worked part-time, compared to 11.2 percent of men.
Indicator 3.3 Minijobs
The percentage of mini-jobbers among all employed women and men was measured here, but limited to mini-jobbers between the ages of 30 and 54, the so-called core working age. Pensioners or students with mini-jobs were therefore not included.
While the rates for men in Mainz and Rhineland-Palatinate are similar, in both 2018 and 2016 fewer women in Mainz were in marginal employment than women in Rhineland-Palatinate as a whole. In 2018, 10.7 percent of employed women aged 30 to 54 throughout Germany had at least one mini-job, compared to 3.1 percent of men in this age group. A person can also have several mini-jobs as long as their total earnings do not exceed €450.
Indicator 3.4 Business start-ups
This refers to the proportion of women among all those who registered a business during the relevant period. Members of the liberal professions therefore do not feature in these statistics, even though they are just as self-employed as tradespeople. Across Germany, 183,746 of the total 608,954 new business founders in 2019 were women. The proportion of women was thus 30.2 percent on average nationwide. With a female quota of 26.3 percent, Mainz is below this average. In 2014, the quota here was still around 30 percent.
Indicator 3.5 Unemployment (unemployment rate)
In 2018, the unemployment rate in Mainz was 6.1 percent, which was the same as in 2017. The rate for men was 6.6 percent and for women 5.5 percent. These figures have also remained unchanged compared to 2017. The rate is measured by the proportion of unemployed people in the total civilian labor force. In Rhineland-Palatinate, the rate for women was 4.3 percent in 2018 and 4.6 percent for men. Across Germany, 5.0 percent of women and 5.4 percent of men in the labor force were unemployed.
Indicator 3.6 Long-term unemployment
This measures the percentage of long-term unemployed people out of all unemployed people.
In 2018, a total of 30.6 percent of unemployed people in Mainz were classified as long-term unemployed, with the rate standing at 32.7 percent for women and 28.9 percent for men. In 2017, a total of 34.2 percent of unemployed people were classified as long-term unemployed – 36 percent of women and 32.8 percent of men.
In 2018, 32.6 percent of women in Rhineland-Palatinate were long-term unemployed and 29 percent of men, while in Germany as a whole, 36 percent of women registered as unemployed were long-term unemployed and 33.7 percent of men.
Indicator 3.10 Basic income support in old age
This indicator describes, in somewhat complicated terms, the proportion of women and men of retirement age receiving basic income support as a percentage of all women and men in this age group.
The figures for Mainz and all other cities and counties included in the calculation of the proportion of basic income support recipients are actually from 2014, while the comparative figures are from 2010. However, in the atlas itself, they are referred to as figures from 2018 and 2008.
According to these figures, 4.2 percent of women in Mainz received basic income support after reaching retirement age, as did 4.2 percent of men. In 2010, the figures were even lower, at 3.8 percent for women and 3.3 percent for men. Calculated for Rhineland-Palatinate, the rate of basic income support recipients was 3.0 percent for women and 2.6 percent for men. According to the statistics, the nationwide figures were 3.3 percent for women and 3.1 percent for men.
Indicator 4.3 Receipt of parental allowance
This section looks at the proportion of fathers who received parental allowance for children born in 2016. According to the data, parental allowance was received for 2,007 children in Mainz who were born in 2016. The fathers of 968 of these children received parental allowance, representing a proportion of 48.2 percent. In Rhineland-Palatinate, the figure was 33.5 percent, and nationwide it was 38.8 percent. However, these percentages do not provide any information about the duration of parental allowance payments at the city and state levels. In Germany, the average duration of payments for fathers was 3.4 months, and for mothers it was 13.4 months.
Indicator 4.5 Childcare for children under the age of three
The atlas recorded the percentage of children under the age of three in nurseries, daycare centers, and daycare. In 2018, the percentage for Mainz was 31.8 percent, while in 2016 it was 30.2 percent. By comparison, the percentage in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2018 was 31.3 percent and the national average was 34.3 percent.