HAMBURG/BERLIN (dpa-AFX) - According to a survey, women are more dissatisfied with their work than men. In the survey conducted by the opinion research institute Forsa, one in five said they were rather dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with their job. In the case of men, the figure was twelve percent. The study was commissioned by the job network Xing from Hamburg. The results are available to Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
Xing has been conducting the study on willingness to change jobs since 2012. More than 3,400 adult professionals from Germany took part in the latest survey. The willingness of respondents to change jobs is almost unchanged compared to the previous year. 36% are open to another employer or are specifically planning to leave (2024: 37%).
The most common reasons cited by respondents for wanting to change jobs were a salary that was too low, a stress level that was too high and dissatisfaction with their boss. It is striking that it was mainly women who stated that they were suffering from stress: The proportion was 44 percent (men: 30 percent).
The head of Xing's parent company New Work, Petra von Strombeck, says that women are disproportionately often employed part-time and bear the main burden of care work. "It's no wonder that narrow time slots for work and childcare lead to high stress levels."
Care work includes housework, childcare and caring for relatives. According to figures from the Federal Statistical Office, women perform more unpaid care work than men./lkm/DP/zb
