According to a study, after pregnancy, women's income would drop by 12% in France! A scandal for gender equality but also for that of woman to woman. It is the Glassdoor site, specialized in the economy, which therefore carried out this study on 18 European countries and the United States. If the gap between French women is only 12%, in Ireland it is much larger with 31%. The most “egalitarian” countries would be Belgium, Italy and Spain:there would be a 3% difference between the wages of working mothers and those of women without children. Germany still reaches 23%, Norway comes next (19%), followed by the United States with a 16% difference, the United Kingdom (14%), Austria (13%) and the Netherlands which arrive at an 8% difference.
The figures for Belgium, Italy and Spain therefore debunk the cliché that a woman with a child is less invested in her job than a woman without a child (argument put forward by some, in particular employers, to explain salary difference).
The study also established a ranking of the activity rate of women by country:Norway, Finland and Sweden come first, 6th place was awarded to France while Italy, Greece and Ireland finish last. Wage inequalities are therefore to be resolved and there is still a long way to go.
