Every year since 2015, the newsletter Les Glorieuses has published the date on which female workers will start to be paid free. Media objective: to raise awareness of the persistence of wage inequalities between women and men despite the promises made by successive governments.
And the least we can say is that little significant progress has been made in eight years. While the first edition of the movement was titled #November54:47 pm, the fateful date this year falls on November 6 at 11:25 am. Suffice it to say, there isn’t much in the way of progress for equal pay.
This symbolic date, calculated by Les Glorieuses using Eurostat data, is clear: it illustrates perfectly “the lack of political will at the top of the state” make equal pay a reality, as noted in an article published today on Publication for the implementation of an emergency plan. Signed by Rebecca Amsellem, the deputies Clémentine Autain (LFI), Arthur Delaporte (PS), Elsa Faucillon (PCF) and Sandrine Rousseau (EELV), it reminds us that women win again, in 2023 “on average almost 25% less than men” but that “Solutions are at hand”.
Concrete solutions proposed for equal pay
Among the avenues mentioned by the signatories of the Forum, the reform of our tax system is the first to be mentioned. “When it comes to equality, our public finances are not neutral. They still respond to a patriarchal organization since, for example, the marital tax ratio always penalizes the lowest salary in a family, i.e. in the vast majority of cases that of women.develops the forum, which calls for adoption “equal conditionality” AS “budgetary principle”. Defended since 2016 by the High Council for Equality, this concept proposes to make the allocation of public funding dependent on respect for gender equality.
Other solution: “adopt, at local and above all national level, gender-sensitive budgets”or even apply it to “the entire financial law”.
Tackling “the gender divide of our job market and homes” should also be considered a government priority to end pay inequalities. This involves aligning parental leave and sharing household and parenting tasks. “The gratuitousness of the tasks historically assigned to women has sent the signal that when it comes to housework, care, raising children, helping non-self-sufficient relatives, it is not Truly of work: he could therefore be underpaid”analyzes the forum, which lists two other areas of reflection: the necessary integration of the consequences of domestic violence on employment and the revaluation of feminized professions. “The revaluation of these professions – in particular through the increase in the minimum wage which affects 60% of women – would reduce professional inequalities to preserve the public service of care, health, early childhood, personal assistance, in the face of aging and to the climate changes. »
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Source: Madmoizelle
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