Apec was well advised not to wait for Women's Day, March 8, to disseminate its study on salary inequality among executives. And for good reason! In 2018, the median remuneration of men was indeed 16% higher than that of women. It must be said that the dice are loaded from the start since on entering the job market, the man under 30 years of age already earns 5% more than his female counterpart.
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Starting with a length of delay in the long distance race of the career, the situation does not improve over the distance. The two sexes " do not experience the same changes in wages and the gaps are widening, " said the study. Over fifty, the executive man thus benefits from a salary 25% higher than that of a woman of the same age group. This is due in particular to maternity, which reduces the number of hours worked by mothers, who often opt for part-time work. As a result, mothers see their hourly wages decrease in the first years. They are caught up in domestic and family tasks, and their reduced flexibility can also penalize their salary development.
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Certain sectors are moreover more unequal than others, such as sales or marketing with pay gaps of 11% with identical profile, against 8% on average for the whole population. The prize for discrimination goes to the financial sector, where 25-year-old women without children are less likely ... to be hired as managers.