Seven out of ten topskattebetalere men

505.000 danes earned more than 43.442 dollars per month in 2017 and would therefore pay the highest tax bracket, according to figures from Statistics Denmark.

furthermore, It appears to 346.000 of the topskatteyderne in 2017 were men, accounting for 71,5 percent.

'When more men than women pay the highest tax, it may hang together with the fact that men more often work more hours per week and more responsible jobs with managerial work than women,' says Niels Ploug, director of personstatistik at Statistics Denmark, in a press release.

Men work more frequently than women more than 37 hours per week, and In 3. quarter of 2018 had a third of the employed men in arbejdskraftsundersøgelsen thus, a normal working time of more than 37 hours per week, while it was true for one-fifth of the women.

- We ask more than 20,000 people in the quarter, about how many hours they usually work, how many hours they going to work according to their contract and how many hours they actually worked in a week. Then we do some calculations from it, explains the special consultant in Statistics Denmark, Sofie Valentin Weiskopf to Ekstra Bladet.

10 percent of the men surveyed indicated that they had a normal working at least 49 hours a week. This was true of less than 3 percent of women.

the Women worked more often than men, less than 37 hours per week, and particularly in the group of employed persons - with a normal working time of 15-36 hours a week - women were over-represented.

- We ask why people are working few hours, and from there we know that more women are part-time workers and more women connecting the work with their family life in a different way than men do, explains Sofie Valentin Weiskop. the

In 2016 was 7 out of 10 leaders of men. On the other hand, 58 per cent. of employees at the highest level in women, according to figures from Statistics Denmark.