Gender Equality: Reveal Your Salary - Cash investigation

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Gender Equality: Reveal Your Salary - Cash investigation
In France, men earn 22.8% more than women. When a full-time woman earns 100 euros, a man makes 122.80 euros! Among the 120 largest French companies, only 9 are led by women, even though they are, on average, more educated than men. The magazine 'Cash Investigation' highlights that the banking sector has the largest pay gap between men and women, with a 36% difference!
In some banking and finance professions, a woman is nearly half as likely as a man to have a position of responsibility, even with the same qualifications. This is not to mention the occasional sexist remarks and other misogynistic outbursts. Journalist Zoé de Bussierre investigated the mechanisms behind such injustice. Among the reasons is the "happy event" of childbirth, which impacts women's salary trajectories and deepens inequalities.
Few women manage to break through this 'glass ceiling' that hinders their career advancement. Added to this is a wage gap that hits certain heavily feminized professions hard. Nurses, who were on the front lines during the unprecedented Covid-19 health crisis and applauded every evening at eight o'clock by the public, earn an average of 1,800 euros net per month in hospitals, despite the responsibilities and the demanding nature of their work.
In Quebec, however, pay disparities disappeared when so-called 'female' jobs were revalued. In this predominantly French-speaking province in eastern Canada, a nurse earns an average of 5,500 euros more per year! So what is France waiting for to eliminate these wage disparities and injustices?