Austria slips into the recession of equality

Women and men in Austria have been legally equal since 1980. Equality is anchored in the federal constitution and an explicit goal of budget policy. Reforms have changed crusted gender -specific role attributions and led to women in the education system and the labor market in recent decades: 20 percent of women and 17 percent of men have a university degree. Between 1980 and 2023, the proportion of working women rose from 52.5 to 68.2 percent, which the men fell by 3.4 percentage points to 78.3 percent.