This Thursday, January 19, 2017, INSEE unveiled a report on the annual wage income of the French in 2014. And what emerges, among other things, is that inequalities between men and women persist again and again. As proof, women earn on average 24% less than men. More concretely, the annual income of the fairer sex amounts to 17,815 euros against 23,398 for their male colleague. In other words, we earn on average 5168 euros less than these gentlemen in one year. Quite a sum all the same!
If one could believe that this difference is due to the difference in working time, this is not the case. The authors of the study make it clear that these inequalities are explained for more than two thirds by the level of salary in full-time equivalent and for less than a third by differences in the volume of work. Another observation:the older you get, the greater the gap between men's and women's salaries. Young women aged 25 to 29 thus earn 11% less than their male colleague, while after age 50, this percentage increases to 22%. Well, if these figures are not very promising, there is still good news:the gender wage gap is narrowing. Indeed, since 2009, the wage income of women has evolved more favorably than that of men. We hope things will get better!
