14.8%. This is the net wage gap between men and women working the same hours in the private sector in France. This inequality is partly the result of occupational segregation defined by INSEE as “a situation in which workers are assigned, de jure or de facto, to different professions based on their sex”, with women generally having less access to higher paying positions.
To illustrate the scope of the phenomenon, INSEE analyzed the professions in which women are overrepresented or underrepresented. In 2019, the beautician profession ranked first with 98% female staff, ahead of the home help and domestic help profession (95.6%), secretary (95.2%), senior secretary (94.2%), maternity assistant and nanny (94.1%) and dental, medical and veterinary assistant (93.4%).
Conversely, women are much less represented among skilled masons (0.4% of the workforce), skilled craft-type electricians (0.8%), skilled fitters, insulation installers (0.8 %), public works workers (1%) and mechanics qualified in maintenance, upkeep and repair of automobiles (1.1%).
Minority women in most highest-paying occupations
Women are in the majority in only three professions (lawyers, non-hospital salaried physicians, and dental surgeons) among the ten highest-paid. They represent only 20% of business leaders with 500 or more employees (14,790 euros of average full-time equivalent salary), 29.4% of administrative, financial and commercial personnel executives (10,090 euros), 17.5 % of the leaders of medium-sized companies (8,950 euros), 10.6% of the technical and commercial officers and flight managers in civil aviation (8,850 euros)…
On the other hand, they are in the majority in six of the ten lowest-paid professions, among which are domestic workers and cleaning staff in private homes (86.5% women, 1,390 euros average salary in EQTP), home help (95.6 %) or cleaners. in industrial and collective premises (58.3%, 1470 euros).
Source: BFM TV
