Stock Photo - 18 March 2019, Berlin: Professional couples show the wage differences at a photo action on the occasion of 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. In the middle are Edda Schliepack (l), spokeswoman for women in the German Social Association, Reiner Hoffmann (M, chairman of the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB), and Mona Küppers (r), chairman of the German Women's Council. 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