English Translation

(a) The principle that women receive only 75 % or more of men's wages, up to a maximum of 80 %, should not be abandoned; it should also apply where women are engaged in work which has so far been carried out by men. The main reason for this is that, according to all previous experience, equal pay for men will immediately trigger a desire to receive higher wages as pamilienerhalten. Dr. Wiesel pointed out that the leader of the Reichsfrauenführer, Mrs. Scholtz-Klink, had also agreed to this regulation on the basis of a recent discussion, in which she had originally agreed to the equality of women's wages with men's salaries for comparable work. (b) The level of pay for newly employed women should normally be determined by the earnings received by women already employed in enterprises for the same work, even if earnings were more favourable in the previous employment relationship. (c) Problems of semi-retirement in the regions and areas where there is a great difference between women and full-time employment areas, particularly in the south of Germany, where the proportion of women employed in new jobs is 41600.