Wage inequalities between women and men persist in France

A major cause of Emmanuel Macron's first five-year term, equality between men and women is also a major cause for the second. Rightly so because France still has a way to go in this area, if only from a salary point of view.

Overall, French women receive a salary 24% lower than that of men. Figures which mask the effect of part-time work, which concerns women more, whether chosen or suffered. For all full-time employees, the gender gap is reduced to 15%. And by placing ourselves in equal positions, the gap narrows further, but remains, at 4%, according to the Observatory of Inequalities.

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If salary inequalities are therefore still a reality, they have nevertheless decreased since the 2000s, knowing that in 1995, the net salary of women in full-time equivalent was 22.1% lower than that of men according to INSEE. The gap has therefore fallen by 7.2 points in thirty…