Named a world champion for gender equality in large companies by the Equileap barometer, France is still not done with gender inequalities in the professional field. According to INSEE, adding up all the working hours, women who work in the private sector received in 2021 a net salary 24.4% lower on average than that of men: 18,630 euros per year on the one hand (1,552 euros per month). , 24,640 euros for the others (2,053 euros per month).
This gap is partly explained by differences in the volume of work, since women are less employed than men and have more part-time jobs. As a result, the workload of women is 10.6% lower than that of men.
In an equivalent working day, the salary of women is 14.8% lower than that of men
At the same time, wage inequalities are reduced: women, with an average net monthly salary in full-time equivalent (EQTP) of 2,301 euros, earn 15.5% less than men (2,722 euros). If we exclude the remuneration that employees in the multi-asset private sector obtain from their secondary activities in the public sector, the wage gap in EQTP is 14.8% (2,292 euros, compared to 2,689 euros on average).
This difference is much greater between men and women in the private sector aged 60 or over (27.5%) than among those under 25 (4.6%). Likewise, the monthly net salary in EQTP of male executives is 16.1% higher than that of female executives, compared to 4.7% between men and women belonging to the socio-professional category of employees.
The wage inequalities for identical working hours are due to the fact that “women do not occupy the same type of work, do not work in the same sectors as men and have less access to the most paid positions”, stresses the INSEE, which speaks of “segregation occupational”.
Thus, women are overrepresented in certain professions (secretaries, self-service, carers, etc.) and underrepresented in other professions (computer science engineers, truck drivers, etc.). They also represent 55% of the low wages (around 1,300 euros net), a third of the workforce that receives at least 4,010 euros per month and only 21.9% of the 1% of the highest paid employees (more than 9,602 euros). ).
It is for this reason that INSEE also calculates the wage gap between men and women for equivalent work time and position. In 2021, this rose to 4.3%. But this gap “cannot be interpreted as a measure of salary discrimination in companies, because it is not corrected for differences in characteristics such as experience, seniority in the company, diploma, which can ‘affect, upwards and downwards,’ specifies the institute of Statistics.
inequalities that are reduced
Although wage inequalities persist in France, the gap is tending to narrow. Thus, women received a net salary in EQTP that was 22.1% lower than that of men in 1995. The decrease observed in recent years is linked to “the proportion of women among managers, on average better paid than other employees “, which went from 23% in 1995 to 37% in 2021 in the private sector.
In addition, the average workload of women has increased, such that the gap with men has gone from 14.9% in 1995 to 10.6% today. “Taking these two components into account, the difference between the average income of women and that of men stabilized at around 34% between 1995 and 2000, before beginning to fall steadily, at -0.5 points per year on average, that is, -10 points in the last twenty years”, concludes INSEE.
Source: BFM TV
