Women's work: a growth engine at a standstill?
Wednesday December 11 at 17:15 a.m. - Moufia Campus
Participate in our conference
Date: Wednesday December 11, 2024
Hours: from 17:15 PM to 19PM.
Location: In the Amphitheater D1 (Favoreu)
Faculty of Law and Economics – University of La Réunion
Teacher:
Emmanuelle AURIOL is Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and at the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole. She was awarded a CNRS bronze medal and is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She is currently a member of the Economic Analysis Council and the Cercle des économistes.
Description
Despite progress in gender equality, income gaps between men and women remain significant in France, with a difference of 30% in 2020 and, worryingly, the reduction of these inequalities has slowed over the past decade.
This disparity can be explained by several factors: lower participation of women in the labour market, career interruptions linked to maternity, more frequent recourse to part-time work, as well as persistent salary gaps despite equal responsibilities.
There are three main causes for this persistence of inequalities.
First, educational choices, influenced by gender stereotypes, hinder women's access to scientific and technical fields, which are better paid. Second, motherhood has a lasting impact on women's careers: women see their income drop by 38% on average over the ten years following the birth of their first child, an irreversible loss. Male careers, on the other hand, do not suffer this type of penalty when their children are born. Finally, even when they have qualifications and jobs equivalent to those of their male counterparts, women continue to face gaps in salary and career progression, often due to asymmetries in the organisation of work and information deficits that penalise them.
From this point of view, the profession of economists, which has been particularly studied, presents an interesting case study.
Finally, we will discuss the public policies to be implemented to sustainably reduce these inequalities, which requires ambitious and coordinated action.