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Ancient Mariner
Taking the example of France, the situation of women has seen major advances in the 70’s and 80’s, with the reduction of the gender gap in employment , especially for the salaries.
But recent studies had shown that the gender wage gap has widened since the 90’s and that new forms of discriminations have appeared with the economic crisis we’re going through.
The gender wage gap stands at 20% since 1990 in disadvantage of women.
They will have less opportunities to access to a job with responsibilities and their wages will increase slower during their carrier. The average wage gap is 8,5% at the beginning of their carreer but increases to 26% after 5 years and to 35% at the end.
I also have to point out that women are more often under-employed than men.
Women are also more employed in part-time jobs than men and they were more affected by the increase of part-time working in the 90’s.
The consequences of this inequality is that more and more women decide to stop working.
As far as I’m concerned, I have always been under-employed. Thus my husband and I have the same level of instruction but he earns much more money than me. To be more precise, when we settled together 7 years ago, he was participating to 62% of our global income and I was participating to 38%. Today we’re participating respectively to 71% and 29%, due to the fact that his salary has increased over the years and that my salary has decreased because I was more or less “forced” to take a part-time job after the birth of our 1st child and because I work on a bonus system and my boss cut off definitely my bonus when he learnt I was pregnant.
I made up my accounts over the last 6 months and I discovered that I was loosing 60euro/month. What’s probably going to happen is that I’ll stop working sooner or later and live on family allowances which would be much more interesting financially.
I talked about my situation to 15 of my female friends and relatives and 2 of them stopped working, 10 admitted that they were in the same situation and that they keep on working because they like their jobs or they couldn’t imagine themselves inactive at home.
I think that the main factor that briddles women in their carreer is the possibility of motherhood. I have never been to a job interview, nor none of my female friends, without being asked the fatal question : “Do you have or do you plan to have children ?” I say fatal because there’s no good answer to that question. Whether you don’t answer at all and you’re sure not to get the job. Whether you answer “yes” and then your potential employer thinks that he’d better employed a man even if you can proove that you’ll be able to work and bring up your children at the same time. Whether you answer “no” and then he thinks you’re a freak and that he’d rather employed a normal person.
Needless to say that none of my male friends had ever have to answer such a question.
Several laws have been voted during the last 3 decades in order to reduce the gap between men and women but they didn’t really have any effects.
Now tell me boys and girls, do you face the same situation in your country ? Is it better ? Is it worse ? Is there any kind of action in your country in favor of women employment?
Here’s a link to Eironline with datas and analysis on gender gap in Europe.
But recent studies had shown that the gender wage gap has widened since the 90’s and that new forms of discriminations have appeared with the economic crisis we’re going through.
The gender wage gap stands at 20% since 1990 in disadvantage of women.
They will have less opportunities to access to a job with responsibilities and their wages will increase slower during their carrier. The average wage gap is 8,5% at the beginning of their carreer but increases to 26% after 5 years and to 35% at the end.
I also have to point out that women are more often under-employed than men.
Women are also more employed in part-time jobs than men and they were more affected by the increase of part-time working in the 90’s.
The consequences of this inequality is that more and more women decide to stop working.
As far as I’m concerned, I have always been under-employed. Thus my husband and I have the same level of instruction but he earns much more money than me. To be more precise, when we settled together 7 years ago, he was participating to 62% of our global income and I was participating to 38%. Today we’re participating respectively to 71% and 29%, due to the fact that his salary has increased over the years and that my salary has decreased because I was more or less “forced” to take a part-time job after the birth of our 1st child and because I work on a bonus system and my boss cut off definitely my bonus when he learnt I was pregnant.
I made up my accounts over the last 6 months and I discovered that I was loosing 60euro/month. What’s probably going to happen is that I’ll stop working sooner or later and live on family allowances which would be much more interesting financially.
I talked about my situation to 15 of my female friends and relatives and 2 of them stopped working, 10 admitted that they were in the same situation and that they keep on working because they like their jobs or they couldn’t imagine themselves inactive at home.
I think that the main factor that briddles women in their carreer is the possibility of motherhood. I have never been to a job interview, nor none of my female friends, without being asked the fatal question : “Do you have or do you plan to have children ?” I say fatal because there’s no good answer to that question. Whether you don’t answer at all and you’re sure not to get the job. Whether you answer “yes” and then your potential employer thinks that he’d better employed a man even if you can proove that you’ll be able to work and bring up your children at the same time. Whether you answer “no” and then he thinks you’re a freak and that he’d rather employed a normal person.
Needless to say that none of my male friends had ever have to answer such a question.
Several laws have been voted during the last 3 decades in order to reduce the gap between men and women but they didn’t really have any effects.
Now tell me boys and girls, do you face the same situation in your country ? Is it better ? Is it worse ? Is there any kind of action in your country in favor of women employment?
Here’s a link to Eironline with datas and analysis on gender gap in Europe.