Stock Photo - 18 March 2019, Berlin: Members of the SPD party leadership, including Svenja Schulze (SPD, l-r), Federal Environment Minister, Lars Klingbeil, SPD Secretary General, Andrea Nahles, Chairwoman of the SPD, Michael Müller (SPD), Governing Mayor of Berlin, Katarina Barley (SPD), Federal Minister of Justice, Olaf Scholz (SPD), Federal Minister of Finance, Malu Dreyer (SPD), Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, and Franziska Giffey (SPD), Federal Minister of Family Affairs, are standing behind a poster with the inscription ""Come together for equal pay"" at a rally of the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB), the German Social Association and the German Women's Council on ""Equal Pay Day"" on Pariser Platz. According to calculations by the Federal Statistical Office, women in Germany earn on average 21 percent less than men. The ""Equal Pay Day"" symbolically marks the gender pay gap, i.e. the day until which women have worked without pay compared to men in the current year. Photo: Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa. - Berlin/Berlin/Germany