The myth of the gender wage gap of more than 20% "equal work" (long version)

Gender, communitarianism and affirmative action are the symptoms of egalitarianism. Indeed, an examination of statistical data does not attest to discrimination allegedly important, especially for equal pay between men and women. The wage gap of 27% (more for men) crude is mainly due to the career preferences (part-time, unlike industry, overtime and responsibility). When is restricted to full-time work, the gap is 10.7% (more for men), including 5.1 points unexplained. The working time of self-employed is less well understood than that of employees, so you can not directly compare these unexplained 5% among employees in the unexplained part for non-employees. However, if we eliminate the effects of industry, size, legal form and age, there is a pay gap even stronger among non-employees without employers (33% gross less for women whose 20 points unexplained, are 49.3% higher for men with unexplained 25 points) than employees (20% less for women with 12 points unexplained, are 25% more gross for men, 13.6 unexplained point outside working hours). Among full-time employees is the differential of 10.7% gross in favor of men, including 5.1 points unexplained. Thus, the unexplained portion of wage gap of around 12% between male and female employees (outside working hours), is less than the unexplained part of the actives without employers (20%). Mean differences of "performance" probably explain some of these unexplained 5% (including working time). Wage discrimination between men and women for equal work, and seems quite marginal.

The huge wage discrimination that women suffer at work is an example of how the passion for equality led some to formulate cons-truths.

Helena Cronin professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics says about this:

"If people use the truth to justify bad decisions, we must fight these decisions, not deny reality ..."
http://www.lactualite.com/20080917_122222_31192?page=0, 1


Christina Hoff Sommers, philsosophe says about quotas in boards: "It is neither constructive nor a company admirable form a consensus on an error."

http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/the-case-against-gender-quotas/

Do not confuse inequality and injustice

Undeniably laudable intentions that animate the heralds of the anti-discrimination, should not obscure some design principles and scientific facts.

Conceptually, it is important to distinguish inequality or injustice. Inequality, quantitative concept, is a simple statement of a hierarchical difference compared to a given criterion. For example, there is unequal pay between a government and an official of category C. In general, this inequality is not regarded as an injustice, given the obvious differences in responsibilities. Injustice, moral concept and therefore qualitative means, in effect, a difference of treatment (arbitrary) for the same situation, or at least a comparable situation. For example, it is unfair that an employee is paid more than his colleague, even though they perform similar work. In the same vein, it is unfair that an employee making twice the work of his colleague, to be paid similarly. In the latter case, it is precisely equal pay is unfair.

Once this conceptual distinction posed, one can ask whether an inequality reflects an injustice or even if a tie is not in itself an injustice. In sum, Are women discriminated against for equal work? Are there differences between men and women among business leaders?

An unexplained gap of about 5% to 10% for equal work

In discussing the gender wage gap, it is often said that women would gain equal work 20% to 30% less than men in France, which would, of course, if it was proven, a absolute scandal.

The parity observatory also takes these raw figures: "The average annual gross salary of women is lower than for men from 18.9% in the private sector and semi-public, 37% lower if we integrate the hours of time partial. "

http://www.observatoire-parite.gouv.fr/portail/reperes_statistiques.htm

However, this seems statistically inaccurate, unless it is considered as equal work simply because of work, regardless of the length, field of activity and the hierarchical level.

Indeed, the gap of 27% (more for men) is raw and therefore includes part-time, unlike industry, overtime and responsibility. Technically, the unexplained part, more akin to discrimination by experts is around 5% (more for men) in France.

It should be noted that that men earn 27% more than women, with 5 points unexplained, is equivalent to saying that women earn 21.3% less than men, the unexplained portion is then 4.8 points.

Table 1

Decomposition of the wage gap in 1997

All employees

Full-time

Unexplained portion of gender differences

4.2%

5.1%

Explained by differences between men and women

22.8%

5.6%

Total

27.0%

10.7%

Field: employees (excluding teachers) aged 45 years.

Source: EJC 1997, INSEE.

For more information, consult the work of a director INSEE Ponthieux Sophie and Dominique Meurs an economist on the subject:

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ES337-338G.pdf

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ES398-399f.pdf


In a study of DARES, away "all things being equal" is estimated to be 10 points lower for women in 2006, for a gross difference of 27%.
The study states that the individual effects are inadequately addressed in the proposed model, including the precise characteristics of the position held by the employee (job, level of responsibility, experience ...) or unobserved (career breaks, specialty degree , family situation, the effort, the bargaining power against the employer ...). In other words, we can not absorb 10% of these unexplained wage gap to discrimination pure.

Besides, experts agree that this unexplained part, sometimes falsely equated with pure discrimination is greatly reduced. This is the case of Sophie Ponthieux INSEE Administrator:

"Sophie Ponthieux: Going back to our distinction between" pure discrimination "and structural factors, it appears that there is much left to win on the policy side of equal pay for" equal work ". In other words, it is not necessary to make war on this land, it is already practically won. "

http://www.inegalites.fr/spip.php?article675

Even Helen Périvier, partisan "discriminationnisme" (discrimination theory that explains most of the social phenomena of a group or socio-economic position, in this case women), recognizes that the structural effects explain the Most of the wage gap. However, it erroneously equates the unexplained part to discrimination. But the bottom line here is that it recognizes that 6% to 7% of the variance is discriminatory (in fact unexplained).

"Helen Périvier: We can say that discrimination exerted against women on the labor market are numerous. Their roots are anchored in the organization of society. But the most obvious being felt on wages, which reflect the unequal situation of women and men in the labor market. One can observe that the average monthly wage gap between women and men is 25%, and it does not move for ten years. Half of this difference is due to differences in working time between men and women. Women are more often part-time.

When they are full time, they work fewer hours, stay late at the office unless, for example. And these differences in working time account for half of the wage gap. One third of this difference is explained by the type of job held by women, since they are concentrated in lower paying sectors: social, education, for example. And there is one quarter of the gap wages, it is the result of pure discrimination. So we can say that the labor market, wages focuses all discrimination against women are subjected. "

In the 2005 report done by Marie-Jo Zimmermann on behalf of the delegation of women's rights and equal opportunities.

One can read on page 5:


"These laws have been applied very modestly and persistently high wage differentials between men and women (25% of mean and 5%
residual variance corresponding to real discrimination)
has
alerted the authorities. "

http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/12/pdf/rap-info/i2243.pdf

Say that women earn 27% less than men, whose 10 points unexplained, means that men earn 37% more than women, whose 11.1 points unexplained.

http://www.travail-emploi-sante.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/2008.10-44.5.pdf

Researchers at the University of Evry evoke a discriminatory difference of 3% to 10%.

http://www.univ-evry.fr/fr/index/Epee/EPEE/composition/ppetit/CdE_68.pdf

It should be noted, moreover, a journalist Marianne, whose idea is to expose the precariousness of immigrants, based on the work of INSEE wrote:

"Normally," all things being equal ", it should not show any difference between immigrants. In fact, if. The income gap of European immigrants falls to -7% compared to non-immigrants. Suffice to say almost nothing. "


Then 5% to 10% for the gender gap?

http://www.marianne2.fr/hervenathan/Immigration-des-faits-et-des-chiffres_a29.html?com

The
Ministry of Labour of the United States (U.S. Department of Labor) conducted a study on wage differentials: it leads to the conclusion that most if not all of the discrepancy is explained by factors other than discrimination :

"Although additional research in this area is needed Clearly, this study leads to the unambiguous conclusion of That the differences in the compensation of men and women are the result of a multitude of factoring and the raw wage gap That Should not Be Used to have The Basis justify corrective action. Indeed, There may Be nothing to correct. The differences in raw salaire Be Almost Entirely may the result of the Individual choices made ​​by Being Both male and female workers. "

http://www.the-spearhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Gender-Wage-Gap-Final-Report.pdf


The Canadian Parliament also leads to the conclusion that this is not discrimination that explains the pay gap:

"Despite the illegality of direct discrimination, the wage gap between women and men persists in Canada. As stated by the Canadian labor economist Morley Gunderson:" It does not seem to be a single dominant factor that explains the discriminatory wage disparities. Nevertheless, the sum of small factors can eventually exert a powerful influence binding. "As we have seen, two determinants of the wage gap are that women are concentrated in a small number of groups 'low-paying jobs and the fact that women are more likely than men to make arrangements to balance paid work and unpaid work. "

http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/LOP/ResearchPublications/2010-30-f.htm

Here is an excerpt of the report edifying of the European Commission called the pay gap between women and men in Europe from a legal perspective:

"At EU level," the pay gap between women and men "is defined as the relative difference in average gross hourly earnings of women and men for the whole economy .15 This indicator is defined as "unadjusted" because it has not been adjusted for individual characteristics that may partially explain the wage gap. These individual characteristics include, among others, the choice of traditional training and careers of men and women, the imbalance between men and women in terms of sharing family responsibilities that men and women still tend working in different sectors, the part-time work, which is often highly feminised; etc.16

As a result, the pay gap between women and men "Unadjusted" - also called gap "absolute" or "gross" - covers both a possible pay discrimination and pay differences resulting from factors that are unrelated to discrimination itself, but that may explain, at least in part, the difference. The gap "corrected" or "net" covers, in contrast, the share of the pay gap that can not be explained and which is widely assumed to arise from discrimination in the strict sense of the law.

The Government of the Netherlands has explicitly stated that the pay gap "corrected" or "net" could not, in his opinion, be considered as wage discrimination. While the "pay discrimination" is a legal concept, the pay gap "corrected" or "net" is the result of a calculation based on several statistical factors leading to a general idea of the situation in different

market sectors travail.17

For purposes of this legal relationship, national experts were asked to focus on the net difference to the extent that this is the part of the pay gap (unadjusted) that lawyers are seeking to reduce or to eliminate. It is clear however that in some cases, the border between gap unadjusted and adjusted gap is very thin, because it also depends on the amount of information available about employee groups studied. Also aimed to analyze the possible connections with other areas of national law (Labour) - measures regarding leave, part-time work and atypical forms of work including - this report can also be seen as an exercise to transfer parts of the pay gap "adjusted" or "net" to the pay gap "unadjusted" or "absolute" and thus make them more likely to be legislative solutions. "


The UK also, economist John Shackleton leads to similar conclusions in Should we mind the gap?.

http://femtech.at/fileadmin/downloads/Wissen/Themen/Geld_regiert_die_Welt/should_we_mind_the_gap.pdf

Michael Scholar, Chairman of the statistical authority responsible for ensuring the proper use of official statistics, has written to various governmental and parliamentary authorities to rein in the misuse of statistics about the wage gap. In his letter, he emphasizes the formal statements or presentations are likely to mislead the public about the real meaning of these figures.

Here is an excerpt from his letter of August 7, 2009:

"On 11 June I wrote to the Minister for Women and Equality, the Rt Hon. Harriet Harman QC MP to express concern over the Way in Which the Figure 22.6 per one hundred HAD has beens Used in Government Equalities Office Press Release. In the view of the Statistics Authority estimate this Particular, When Used on Its Own without qualification, Risks Giving a misleading quantification of the gender pay gap [...].

It Would Be Easy year mistake for a casual reader from the Foreword to Conclude That overalls if the gender pay gap stands at 22.6 per cent and the full-time gender pay gap stands at 12.8 per cent, then the part-time gender pay gap must considerably Be Greater Than 22.6 per cent. Indeed, the Foreword Appears to confirm just sa situation concluding When It states that 'pay gaps are Even Greater for part-time workers (39.9 per cent)'. The casual reader Would Be Surprised to Learn That median hourly earnings then of women and of men (EXCLUDING overtime) are very close, with women's median pay Actually Being Slightly Higher Than Men's (by 3.4 per cent).

While the Foreword to Shaping the Future Refers to 39.9 per one hundred year estimate as of the pay gap for part-time workers, it Does not explain what this is a measure of. "

http://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/reports---correspondence/correspondence/index.html

Here is an excerpt from his letter of August 11, 2009:

"Limitations of Measures of the Gender Pay Gap

22. The 2008 ASHE release states the Following:

"Although median and mean hourly pay EXCLUDING overtime Provide Useful comparisons of men's and women's earnings, They Do not reveal differences in rates of pay for comparable jobs. Because this is do not allow Such Measures for the different emploi Characteristics of men and women, Such as the proportion in different occupations and Their length of time in jobs. "

23. We Agree with major thesis Qualifying remarks highlight Which Some of the limitations of Measures summary of the gender pay gap and the Difficulties in Providing a full like-for-like comparison Between Men's and women's earnings. Although the Estimates of the gender pay gap presented in this paper Have value, They Do not control for some factoring Such as occupation and length of time in jobs Which are Likely to Have a differential impact on the earnings of women and of men. These limitations Need To Be terminal in Mind When considering the extents to Which Measures of the gender pay gap and inequality provide statement evidence of discrimination in the labor market. "

A pay gap much stronger among people on their own account

It is now turn to the thorny issue of average performance of men and women at work and wage gaps. The field analysis is France.

Indeed, the prevailing view tends to equate all of the wage gap to outright discrimination. While the discrimination must be combated with the utmost firmness, that differences remain "objective" performance can legally justify differences in pay. While the wage gap is partly explained by discrimination, which must be combated and punished, the fact remains that other factors explain the discriminatory wage gaps. It is therefore to highlight before asserting that they can only be explained by sexism.

It has already been shown that the gender wage gap is largely explained by objective factors: overtime, part-time, industry, level of responsibility, skill level, seniority etc. ... We therefore reduced from 27% of gross deviation less than 5% of unexplained part (and more for men). It is this unexplained part which can be equated to discrimination.

But this unexplained part in the work mentioned does not mean that there is no explanation in the absolute. In other words, the 4% or 5% (for men and more or less for women) may not be entirely due to discrimination. This is what is needed now try to analyze.

To do this, we will proceed by reasoning by contradiction, assuming that the wage gap is due solely to discrimination. In other words, it is the employer who discriminates against women. In this assumption, the only way to have the wage gap "without discrimination" is to consider the pay gap between men and women who have no employer: it is those who work their own account.

We will refer to the work of the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, INSEE in the magazine FIRST No. 954 in March 2004.

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ip951.pdf

"On one hand, according to sector or equivalent, they earn less than their male counterparts and secondly, they are relatively more numerous in functions and in the lower paying sectors. In 2001, they earned an average of 29,500 euros net per year or one-third less than the leaders. Their situation has improved somewhat over time as the gap was 39% in 1993. If we eliminate the effects of industry, size, legal form and age, the salary of the ruling remains 20% lower than the leaders and this gap is stronger than for all employees (12 %). In younger generations, these differences in wages are lower. "

In other words, leaders therefore earn 49.3% more than the leaders. If we eliminate the effects of industry, size, legal form and age, executive pay is 25% higher than that of the ruling and this gap is stronger than for all employees (13 , 6%).

This work and tables show that even women who have no hierarchy (eg less than 10 employees) and who are under 30 years earn less than men on average in the same area! As for the gross pay gap of 27% among employees in favor of men, it rises to 115.8% for the bosses of textile, clothing and footwear. The pay gap between men and women is even 121.9% for legal professionals. In other words, men earn twice their female peers, without this huge difference is discussed in the debate on wage discrimination. The statistics say nothing about overtime of these leaders, their risk-taking, their motivation, their capital, the quality of their management.

Table 2

Earned income in thousands of euros of non-employees (managers and professionals) by sex

Industry

Total

H

F

gap H / F

Share of zero earnings

Number of non-employees

Share of women

Legal activities

102

132.6

59.8

121.9

2.7

51.1

42.0%

Textiles, clothing, chausssure

16

23.6

10.9

115.8

13.6

7.2

59.8%

Paramedic, dentist, nurse, physiotherapist, laboratory

48

64.9

35.9

80.8

2.8

187.1

58.3%

Financial services, insurance, post

66.4

70.9

39.5

79.6

10.7

24.4

14.3%

Rental services

27.2

29.6

17.4

69.7

33.9

5.6

19.7%

Industry excluding textile, clothing and footwear

27.4

29

17.3

67.2

10.8

74.9

13.7%

Food industry (IAA) industrial

27.9

29.8

17.8

67.2

8.4

8.3

15.8%

Doctors and hospital activities

78.6

89

54.7

62.7

1.8

121.8

30.3%

Other business services (accounting, consulting, temporary ...)

37.9

41.3

26.2

57.8

15.9

188.9

22.5%

Funeral and care of the deceased

40.7

43.7

28.5

53.1

8.2

1.2

19.7%

Education, excluding higher

19.6

22.9

15

52.8

10.4

23

41.8%

LPN artisanal butcher, butcher, baker, pastry

29.5

31.1

20.5

51.6

6.2

36.6

15.1%

Landlord and Tenant

41.3

44.1

29.2

51.1

30.7

21

18.8%

Real estate activities, renting out

41

45.1

30.8

46.5

27

27

28.7%

Wholesale trade

30.8

33

22.8

44.7

19.1

60.1

21.6%

Services artistic, cultural and sporting

15

16.3

11.7

39.2

16.5

51.9

28.3%

Other personal services (hairdressing, beauty, laundry ...)

14.8

18.3

13.6

34

8.5

84.3

74.5%

Trade perspective, orthopedics and ambulance

45

48.3

36.5

32.5

8.2

7.6

28.0%

Transport services

27.7

28.6

21.7

31.7

12

27.1

13.0%

Retail business

18.4

20.1

15.7

28

12.6

242.9

38.6%

Hotel, cafe, restaurant

21.9

23.7

18.7

26.9

14.1

142.5

36.0%

Building, public works

28.6

28.8

22.7

26.7

6

249.1

3.3%

Pharmacy

97.8

109.2

87.7

24.4

2.9

25.2

53.0%

Computer Services and Research & Development

26.2

26.7

21.8

22.4

20.6

19.9

10.2%

Automotive trade and repair

27.1

27.5

22.9

20.1

10.5

44.6

8.7%

Extractive industry

34.5

35

29.7

17.8

15

0.4

9.4%

Taxis

16.2

16

18.4

-13.1

3.1

26.3

8.3%

Together

36.4

39.8

28.7

38.6

10.2

1766

30.6%

Source: INSEE, based Self-employed, 2005. author's calculations

 

A productivity differential between men and women suggested by the differences in performance of individuals on their own account


But, implicitly (and certainly not explicitly) productivity is addressed (output per head).
Productivity is a fundamental concept in economics. For a boss, the link between pay and productivity is more direct because it is itself fixed remuneration based on the results of his company.


But, so defined, the average productivity of male leaders is greater than that of women leaders in industry and age equivalent.
In all cases, it is unrealistic for firms without associates, with a (an) officer (e) young.

Besides, everyone can see that female managers earn more than women leaders in 2001, which is less often the case for men. This is the paradox of wage discrimination: women are more interested in being employed by companies that discriminate against them than being on their own account.

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ip951.pdf

http://insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ref/revaind09c.PDF


Thus the unexplained part, equated with discrimination among employees can be for non-employees.
However, the pay gap between men and women "all things being equal" is at best comparable employees in the categories and non-employees, at worst greater among the self-employed than among employees. This is likely to restrict significantly from discrimination in the wage gap, it seemed quite marginal.

It is thus interesting to note that the gap "no boss" is even more important that the gap "with the boss." We can reasonably assume that the proportion of unexplained wage gap of 4% or 5% is partly explained by these differences in performance or salary requirement. Aside from performance, the other reason could be advanced, in fact, is the fact that women are less demanding compensation: they pay less, less hard bargain wage increases, as suggested by the aforementioned study of DARES .


One limitation of the proof lies in the number of hours, women bosses can work less because of family responsibilities.
In the article Men - women, differences in income for non-sensitive employees of the magazine INSEE reference Earned income independents - 2009 Edition, you can read on page 38: "Another source of INSEE employment survey, the usual weekly working time of a non-employee working full-time rises (in 2006-2007) to 51 hours against 56 for men. By integrating this dimension "time" the gap becomes close to what is observed among full-time employees. "

http://insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ref/revaind09c.PDF

http://insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ref/revaind09c.PDF

http://www.pme.gouv.fr/informations/editions/etudes/bref_30_1eme_19mar_bd.pdf

This shows that the effect of "quantity time" (9.8% of weekly hours for men, ie -8.9% for women according to INSEE), explains some of the difference in pay. Taking this into account, per capita productivity is higher in men, partly because of the increased hours of work.

As for hourly productivity, the effect is "quality time", it seems also higher in men, since the wage differential in hourly equivalent proportion persists, as in full-time employees. Remember that this differential is 10.7% (more for men) with 5.1 points unexplained and related to discrimination (see ECONOMY AND STATISTICS No. 337-338, 2000 - 7/8 page 145).

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ES337-338G.pdf

In the article Men - women, differences in income for non-sensitive employees of the magazine INSEE reference Earned income independents - 2009 Edition, you can read on page 39:

"The difference is important for physicians, the order of 60%. A study of GPs Drees on sector 1 (sector agreement), the income gap between men and women is 34% for men. This difference is mainly due to the number of procedures performed by doctors: on average, female physicians are absent one day a week more than men and perform fewer acts per day (see file "The total income activity of physicians with a liberal ")."

Male physicians and 60% earn more than their counterparts while GPs earn 34% more. Women doctors earn 37.5% less so than their counterparts, women GPs earning 25.4% less than men.

There is much in this field there are firstly, the quantity effect time or the duration of labor productivity increases by a male head but on the other hand, the effect or quality time hourly productivity, since the number of acts, is more important for the same unit of time. Clearly, the "performance" generates an hourly income differential in favor of men, still on average, of course.

INSEE said that the companies created by women survive less well:

"For quality and project profile and identical age, women are less successful. The choice of activity, the level of resources invested, the diploma or using at the time of the creation thus insufficient to explain the lower survival of businesses started by women. elements outside the company such as the compatibility of family and professional life may be the cause of this difference. "

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ip1064.pdf

These results are consistent with the work of economist Jessica Wolpaw Reyes U.S.. Focusing on the wage gap between male and female gynecologists in the United States, Jessica Wolpaw Reyes shows that differences can be explained almost entirely by differences in productivity and differentiated practices. It leads to the explicit conclusion that there is no wage gap when women work as many hours, many patients receive and carry the same medical procedures.

"The Above results Indicate That female obstetrician-Gynecologists Receive Incomes That Are Substantially lower (20-25% lower) Than Their Counterparts male. However, the gender gap in revenu is Significantly Reduced When differences in Practice Characteristics and physician are taken Into account productivité . In Fact, Among the Young Physicians share of the gender gap revenu That Could not Be Explained by Differences in Characteristics productivité Fell so much gold around the turn of the century That It Was Statistically insignificant by 2002. This is the MOST consoling or finding of the this analysis: according to the Most Recent data available, male and female obstetrician-Gynecologists Who practice in The Same Manner APPEAR to Receive The Same Incomes. Gender Does not Matter. It is Only When female obstetrician-Gynecologists choose less viable financially rewarding practice arrangements or do less (see Fewer patients, Fewer work hours, perform procedures Fewer) That THEY earn lower Incomes. "

The consultant Graef Crystal says that women with high levels of responsibility earn less for reasons unrelated to discrimination (level of responsibility, company size, seniority, experience). But, when rigorously control these factors, there is no discrimination in the American case.

"There's no truth to assertions Simply That female senior executives are discriminated Against Being In Their Pay."

http://www.equilar.com/NewsArticles/100803_bloomberg.pdf

Surprisingly, this is what wage differential due to a productivity differential, which arouses indignation, as here:


"A figure speaks for itself: the average total earnings of women is 27% lower than men's. One of many examples cited in the 2011 Salary Guide is a difference of 35% in commercial functions, particularly because the variable part of remuneration. "

The variable part of the business functions corresponds precisely to the performance of business. The more they sell, they earn more money. This is a question of motivation: to work uneven, unequal pay. Discrimination does not make sense here as it would have a disincentive to both positively discriminated for those who would negatively.

Maria Stanfors, Tim Leunig, Björn Eriksson and Tobias Karlsson in their article

Gender, Productivity and the Nature of Work and Pay: Evidence from the Late Nineteenth-Century Tobacco Industry, concluded that wage differentials between men and women paid piece in the tobacco industry are explained by individual characteristics. If they are paid on time half of the gap would be unexplained and therefore discriminatory.

http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1053.pdf


Trond
Petersen, Vemund Snartland and Eva M. Milgrom Meyersson in Article Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap indicates that one third of the wage gap is discriminatory while two thirds are due to differential productivity when workers are paid piece.

The work done by CREST in France to conclude a lower productivity of women from 11% in industry and 7% in other sectors, discrimination being respectively 3% and 2%. There would be little or no discrimination wage.

"Overall, our method leads to the conclusion of France in That There Is No or little

gender wage discrimination. Confirmed this is using the two-equation approach of

NST: women are less Than Paid men aim to hold APPEAR aussi less productive jobs. "

http://www.crest.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Pageperso/crepon/CreponDeniauPerezDuarte2002.pdf

A publication on productivity differences between men and women in Belgium concluded that the productivity gap between men and women is 5% to 8%. Wage discrimination is not proven.

http://perso.uclouvain.be/vincent.vandenberghe/Papers/Gender_wage_discrimination_Labour.pdf

The recommendations leave no doubt on the willingness of Pascale Petit, economist, to promote women.

Yet she writes in discrimination in hiring: an audit study in pairs in the financial sector: "However, our study shows that this result is not related to an aversion of employers for women, but their anticipation an average female productivity and lower labor costs higher average female, in this age group. "

http://www.discriminations.inegalites.fr/IMG/pdf/Revue_Economique.pdf

Despite all this work, we find economists to explain: "The measure of productivity is something quite difficult, especially when trying to make a difference between the productivity of men and women. Both segments being in different labor market, the productivity measure is hardly comparable. "

So you can not measure productivity because men and women are in different sectors.

But the same person tells us, in the same interview: "In areas where women are present, such as early childhood sector, since it is the relay of family work that women have to within their own families, men are discriminated against in hiring. It is very difficult for a man to be recruited in a manger, because of the reluctance of parents to see a man taking care of their child. We see the heavy weight of tradition and stereotypes that play here against man. In these areas, in contrast, women are very active, less discriminated against. "

In contrast to discrimination, it is suggested that women are discriminated against in areas where there would be men and women.

In the interview, it is difficult to understand how the fact that a woman working full time, stay late at the office less, constitutes discrimination.



Anne-Marie Le Pourhiet:

"The existence of a discriminatory intent is often effectively impossible to prove, simply because it does not exist, but the silent qualitative and objective reasons for this situation quantitatively, as simple and obvious as they are in up to establish presumptions of discrimination solely on the basis of statistics. "

http://constitutiolibertatis.hautetfort.com/files/discrimination-positive.pdf

"Seeing that there are few descendants of North African immigrants or African Polytechnic little or disabled at the Paris bar or no women on the scaffolding of the façade renovation of buildings or behind garbage trucks does not necessarily cry out to injustice and discrimination. Must still agree to consider things with good faith and realism instead to do with sectarianism and opportunism ideologue activist. [...] It is not forbidden for women to boycott the building trades and their lack of sites is not necessarily indicative of hidden discrimination. "

The wage gap by PCS

The raw wage gap unexplained or is not following the same profession and social category. In the private sector, the gross difference is 30% higher for men than women executives executives in 2009. This gap is 16% for intermediate occupations, 10% for employees and 22% for manual workers. When is restricted to persons working full-time the gap is narrowing.

Pay gap H / F (full)

Frames

Associate professionals

Employees

Workers

Together

Unexplained part

4.4

4.1

6

10.9

5.1

Portion explained

7.7

3

4.9

8.4

5.6

Total deviation

12.1

7.1

10.9

19.3

10.7

% Share unexplained

36%

58%

55%

56%

48%

% Share explained

64%

42%

45%

44%

52%

Field: employees aged 45 or less (excluding teachers) working full time.

Source: EJC 1997, INSEE.

Deviation Compensation H / F (time not included)

Employees

Non-employees

Unexplained part

13.6

25

Portion explained

11.4

24.3

Total deviation

25

49.3

% Share unexplained

54%

51%

% Share explained

46%

49%

Source: INSEE, author's calculations, 2001

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ES337-338G.pdf

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ES398-399f.pdf

The gross hourly wage gap does not take into account the type of hours worked (overtime, night work)

Three quarters of people who work nights are men. However, night work is better paid than the day job.

The share of employees receiving overtime or complementary among men is 39.9% against 25.2% for women. However, overtime is better paid than the additional hours that are better paid than regular hours.

http://www.travail-emploi-sante.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/2008.10-44.5.pdf

DARES says:

"In 2009, 53% of men received pay for overtime (or complementary,
for part-time employees) against 37% of women (Table 2).
Gross hourly earnings of overtime or additional made ​​by women is 17% lower on average than men (4). This is due in part to the basic hourly wage of women is
lower average than men.
Accordingly, the remuneration of their hours
extra or additional, proportional to the basic hourly wage is generally lower.
This is also related to the fact that nearly a third of women with hours
are paid extra or additional part-time, against 5% of men (proportions similar to those observed in the overall employed population).
However, only the additional hours beyond 10% of the term of the contract (5) shall be increased (at 25%). For full-time employees, overtime, however, are compensated at a higher rate of about 25% from the first hour (6). "

http://www.travail-emploi-sante.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/2012-016-2.pdf

A wage gap for equal work more than 20% of public knowledge is illogical

Wage discrimination for equal work (generalized mass u) is an economic and legal aberration.
In a market economy, if women were paid 20% to 30% less for equal work, men are often unemployed: there would be a "relocation" site for women heavily employed.
And indeed men would find themselves obliged to have lower wage demands to remain competitive.

In a democratic state of law which prohibits discrimination and ensures freedom of association, there would be hundreds of thousands of lawsuits, millions of referrals to the HALDE (or advocate) and multiple interventions of labor inspection ...


Discrimination (for equal work) and high mass scale is illogical economically and legally.

The American economist Thomas Sowell wrote: "You know, if it was really true That You Could hire a woman for Three quarters of what you Could hire a man with Exactly The Same qualifications, then Employers Would Be crazy not to hire all women. It Would Be insane to hire men. Not only insane Would It Be, It Would Probably put them out of the business Because The Ones That Were smart enough to hire women Would Have Such a cost advantage That It Would Be really hard for The Others to compete. "

The myth of the glass ceiling

Women are victims of the glass ceiling. This idea is in the preparatory report on the consultation with social partners on professional equality between men and women (compared Gresy 2009).

The Dutch economic journalist Marike Stellinga in his book published in 2009 From myth van het glazen ceiling (The myth of the glass ceiling) refutes myth said, from a survey conducted in the Netherlands and Norway). His investigation reveals that women do not usually have the same aspirations, since they give a little less emphasis on their careers. 75% of women part-time and 78% satisfied with the division of tasks with their partner (p.63 and p.115). Very ambitious women would be a minority who do not meet generally sexist obstacle in their career.

Marike Stellinga was received at the Belgian Parliament where she presented the results of its investigation.

http://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/pdf/53/0211/53K0211004.pdf

http://www.blog-emploi.com/index.php/post/2009/10/26/Le-plafond-de-verre,-a-myth

The British sociologist Catherine Hakim tells various myths including that of the glass ceiling that hid indeed different career choices, in Feminist myths and magic medicine.

Helena Cronin points out: "To determine the main obstacle, one must first understand the difference between what men and women choose when they have little choice, without discrimination. There are few women in some areas where admission criteria for career advancement or are completely impartial and scientific - mathematics, for example. So there are a lot in the humanities or sectors "softer", where prejudice can easily play yet. What proof is there that this is due to a glass ceiling that few women in math? "

http://www.lactualite.com/20080917_122222_31192

Eileen Trzcinski and Elke Holst Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of

Management positions indicate that there is no difference in subjective well-being of women in senior level and women working in managerial positions in the case of Germany:

"Our results Indicated That a clear hierarchy exists for men in term of how status

Within the labor market associated with WAS subjective life satisfaction.
Unemployed Men Were the least satisfied, Followed by Men Who Were Not in the labor market, while men in leadership positions Reported The Highest level of subjective life satisfaction. For women, no significant differences Statistically Were Observed Among women in high-level managerial positions, women Who Worked in non-high-level positions, and women Who Specialized in Household production, with no market work. Only Women Who Were Reported unemployed lower Levels of life satisfaction, Compared with Other women in labor-market statuses. Our results lend evidence to the contention That Men can "have it all", women must still choose goal Between career and family in Germany. "
http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.356386.de/dp998.pdf

The sociologist Steven Goldberg in The inevatibility of patriarchy refers to the male tendency to seek positions of power.
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/gmklass/foi/readings/patriarchygoldberg.htm

Women are very likely not feel job discrimination


The thesis of Discrimination against women is battered by HALDE.


In 2010, after a massive awareness campaign, the High Authority collects 615 complaints about 12,239,000 of employed women in France: 0.005%

http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=NATnon03177

In 2009, the High Authority has produced and distributed 1.5 million copies of a pamphlet for employers and their employees on the prevention of discrimination because of pregnancy. There were only 126 complaints in 2008.


http://www.halde.fr/IMG/pdf/RA_Halde_2010.pdf

Faced with few complaints, presumably to prove that there was still discrimination HALDE requested an investigation.

http://www.halde.fr/IMG/pdf/Sondage_Femmes_et_discriminations_au_travail_HALDE_CSA.pdf

When asked do you feel they have been discriminated against because you are a woman to get a raise? 20% answered yes, 69% no, the rest not affected. Same answers to the question about obtaining a position at level of responsibility.

70% to 80% of women did not feel they have been discriminated against in pay or promotions. The figure is even higher in the case of employment discrimination: 84% to 92% did not feel they have been discriminated against.

The feeling of being discriminated against because of pregnancy is even lower.


In total, 34% feel they have been discriminated against at work for any reason, 66% not having that feeling.

Can it be said that under these conditions is discrimination that largely explains the wage gap?

We are inclined to think not.


But it is clear that by trumpeting everywhere that there is discrimination against women, they will eventually have the feeling of being discriminated against: this is called an artifact (a phenomenon created from scratch by the experimental conditions).


Political equality does not imply a parity of interest or political commitment

Political parity was allegedly necessary because of alleged discrimination, again, women. Anne-Marie Le Pourhiet, constitutional lawyer, talks about this in 2004:
"The tracking method is usually used in a purely quantitative approach and elementary arithmetic enough: if there is" only "11% of women deputies in the National Assembly, for instance, that suffices to conclude that a practice partisan sexist and discriminatory. Similarly if there is "only" three or four women presidents or prefects, it is necessarily because of trends "androcentric" conscious or unconscious, in the French senior civil service. [. ..] A few months ago, a poll indicated that 14% of French women said they were "maybe" interested in a political career. If we remove the 3% who do not ultimately be, it falls to 11%, that is to say exactly the number of women deputies in the National Assembly. The actual percentage may therefore simply reflect the wishes and tastes of French. Can we, under these conditions, continue to talk about sexist practices which women are "victims"? "

http://constitutiolibertatis.hautetfort.com/files/discrimination-positive.pdf

The conclusion is not necessarily false. But you can not compare 11% of women MPs (relating to men and women politicians) to 14% of women interested (referring to all women). We must therefore estimate the proportion of women among men and women who are interested or involved in politics.

In a more recent poll, the question was posed to women: "If you had the possibility and opportunity, would you be willing to get involved in politics?"

10% responded yes definitely, yes probably 25%.

http://www.sondages-en-france.fr/sondages/Actualit% C3% A9/Femmes

The following question was asked in a poll by the CSA: "If you have a little time and want to dedicate it to exchange, discuss and take action to provide answers to problems in France you would go rather ...? "

The CSA said: "Nearly 8 in 10 women (79%) would go into an association for only 6 out of 10 men (62%), while for engagement in a political party, the reverse is true with almost 2 10 men (19%) would choose a party for less than 1 in 10 women (7%). For the engagement in a union, the attraction is the same level for men (12%) and for women (10%). "

Among those interested in political commitment, so there is 27% women.

The CEVIFOP evokes a real gender gap in terms of interest in politics: "53% of men against 35% of women express an interest in politics, a true" gender gap "that confirms the data available on the issue."

So women represent 40% of people who say they care about politics.

http://www.cevipof.com/bpf/barometre/vague1/synthese/BPF-V1_R03_DB-BC-JC.pdf

Women represent only 32% of the participants in PS, 35% of the UMP and 40% in the PC.

A total of 27% to 40% of people interested in politics or ready to commit or activists are women. This is far from parity from the start.

Now consider the representation of women in politics.

The share of women elected to municipal councils in 2008 is 34.8% and 13.8% of women mayors.

http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=NATSOS05509

The share of women elected to councils in 2011 was 13.8%.

http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=NATSOS05508

The share of women elected to regional councils in 2004 was 47.6%.

http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=NATSOS05507

The share of women elected to the National Assembly in 2007 is 18.5% to 41.6% of candidates.
http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=NATSOS05506

The share of women elected to the Senate in 2011 is 21.8%.

http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=partfemmesenat

Representation of women in politics varies from 13.8% to 47.6%. These figures are not far from those expressing interest in politics (27% to 40% of people interested in politics or ready to commit or activists are women).

Athletic performance appear to have an impact on occupational physical activity


In the police, there are 71% men and 29% women.

But the division of labor is different: 85% of field workers are men and 76% of women among people working in offices.
15% of line police officers are women.

The overall rate of feminization of the gendarmerie is now at about 13% of the workforce, against 5% in 2002.

http://www.senat.fr/rap/r07-271/r07-2719.html

Women represent 12% of civilian firefighters.

http://www.senat.fr/rap/l10-655/l10-6551.pdf

Women represent 12% to 20% of marathon runners.

http://marathon-geek.over-blog.fr/

http://entrees-en-lice.over-blog.com/article-36311044.html

You should know that athletic performance of adolescents 14 to 15 years are comparable to professional women. French adolescents 16 to 17 years perform better than the best female athletes worldwide.

Minimal record men of France

Women (including professional) record for France

Women (including professional) world record

Cadet men record of France

100m

11 "08

10'73

10'49

10'43

1000m

2'30'16

2'31'93

2'28'98

2'22'22

3000m

8'44'25

8'35'41

8'06'11

8'11'09

100m hurdles

12'85

12'56

12'21

12'05 ****

5000m walk

23'10'05

21'51'70

20'02'60

21'37'15

Pole vault

4.82 m

4.70 m

5.06 m

5.40 m

High jump

2.10 m

1.97 m

2.09 m

2.20 m

Long jump

7.12 m

7.05 m

7.52 m

7.83 m

Triple jump

15.14 m

14.69 m

15.50 m

15.99 m

Weight 4kg

19.03 m

18.68 m

22.63 m

19.22 *

Javelin 600g

62.00 m

62.53 m

72.28 m

79.65 m **

4kg hammer

72.40 m

74.66 m

79.42 m

81.84 m ***

Source: French Athletics Federation, 2012

For example, compare the one hand, the best performance of small French male (14-15 years) and younger (16-17 years) and on the other hand, adult women holding the female world record.


*
Weight 5kg

Javelin 700g **

Hammer 5kg ***

**** Estimation from the 110m hurdles

http://www.athledunet.com/Records/Hommes/Outdoor-fra-cadets.htm

http://www.lequipe.fr/Athletisme/REC_OF.html

http://www.athledunet.com/Records/Hommes/Outdoor-fra-minimes.htm

http://www.lequipe.fr/Athletisme/REC_FRA_OF.html

The link between sports performance and recruitment in the police, the gendarmerie or the fire reflected in the differentiation of scales. For example, in swimming 100m breaststroke, men who want to obtain the maximum score of 20 must travel the distance in 1mn32 maximum. For the same note, women have to travel the distance in 2mn03. A man who traverses this distance in 2mn03 would get only 13. Similarly for abdominal pulls, men must make 150 to get the maximum score against 100 for women. A man who would do 100 push-ups got a rating of 15.

http://www.impactcross-training.fr/library/file/test% 20police.pdf

The biological basis of this performance differential sexed are well known in the field of sports doping. Sportswomen of East Germany were being administered male hormones to improve their results. This strategy proved disastrous sporting term for the health of athletes, not to mention they are contrary to the ethics of sports federations. But what is remembered here is that efficiency in terms of sports results demonstrate the role of biology in the performance differential between men and women.

http://www.bakchich.info/sport/2008/11/21/et-la-rda-inventa-le-dopage-detat-54158

Recruitment into the police includes the selection criteria are gender neutral, even in theory, it is the same work, that is to say equal work. However, researchers are surprised that in practice, tasks are differentiated.

http://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/JS66-25-1996F.pdf

"However, the return of the right to power in 2002 reflects a desire to stem the massive recruitment of women by changing the physical tests for admission to the competition of peacekeeper (establishment of a common scale for both gender selection according to body mass index). The latter is finally removed after union protest. "

One can consult the work of Genevieve Pruvost From "sergote" to the female cop. Another story of the police institution (1935-2005).

http://lectures.revues.org/719

Biology would influence social phenomena according to scientific work

According to INSEE, the differential in life expectancy between men and women is partly due to genetic factors:

"Women would have advantages as biological explaining in part their longer life expectancy (less genetic diseases, ...), some studies (bibliography)."

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/ipweb/ip1372/ip1372.pdf

A sex-linked biological advantage can have social consequences ...

"Women have some biological advantages, which should in any

logically make their life between 5% and 7% longer than men.

(Waldron, 1976) "

https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/jspui/bitstream/1866/296/1/a1.1g1019.pdf

Journalist Anne Road questioned the American researcher, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, an anthropologist and primatologist, member of the Academy of Sciences spoke of the maternal instinct:

"Because we owe to France, through the theories of Simone de Beauvoir and Elisabeth Badinter, the hypothesis of the" mother socially constructed "demolishes the doctrine researcher, replying that in all the primates, investment mother emerges after some sort of chain reaction, "the complex interactions between genes, tissues, glands, signs of past experiences and the environment. complex behaviors such as mothering are never entirely genetically predetermined, or produced as the only environment. "Sarah Hrdy's work does not oppose nature and nurture, nature and culture. They show that the maternal instinct is not a summary indestructible instinct, but it sets up the environment if n ' is not unfavorable.

During pregnancy, is set up a chain of physiological changes and significant only at birth, neurotransmitters like oxytocin are released that promote the transformation of the mother. If it is in intimate contact and prolonged contact with this little alien out of it, its neural circuits are modified to encourage and respond to signals and requests issued by her child. Once the mother starts to breastfeed (within 70 hours after birth) and the baby stimulates her nipples, she becomes even more nourishing. "

The science journalist Peggy Sastre ahead of Darwinian explanations in his article Why evolution does upset as feminists? "From cradle to grave, there are cognitive and behavioral differences statistically significant between the sexes, and it soon obviously unaware of the level of gene expression, hormone production and neurological organization. "

The journalist says:

"Second mistake: lack of understanding of genetic mechanisms. Suggest a behavior has an evolutionary basis and would be partially embedded in our genetic variation does absolutely not a hereditary determinism to draw general conclusions on all male (or all females).

First, the link between a gene and a trait through gene variants (alleles) that are not present in the whole population, but to a greater or lesser extent. Then, the gene expression is modulated by the environment of individuals, starting with the cell medium (epigenetic modulation).

The same gene does not necessarily produce the same biochemical signals into the cell. And it does not produce more, at another level, the same behavior in society. This does not mean that these genes do not have a statistically discernible influence, when studying an entire population. "

http://www.slate.fr/story/34529/feminisme-evolution-reactions

In 2005, Huntington Willard, one of 250 co-authors of the annotation of the X chromosome, and in Nature said: "There is not one human genome, but two: the male genome and the genome female."

http://www.genome.duke.edu/people/faculty/willard/dirmessages/sep_07/

Susan Pinker Canadian psychologist discusses the differences between men and women among others related to the brain.

Martha Bridge Denckla, a researcher in neurology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, described the differences in brain functioning of men and women. Men have more gray matter and women more than white matter.

According to David Geary, PhD, professor of psychology at the University of Missouri, women have an advantage in the field of language.

Martha Bridge Denckla according, boys are more affected by diseases of the type of dyslexia.

The girls would be more effective for language while boys are more successful in math and spatial representation. Medical imaging would see areas that are activated in the brain.

http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/how-male-female-brains-differ

The work of
Sonya M. Kahlenberg and Richard W. Wrangham, biology researchers, show that young male chimpanzees spontaneously play with games associated with boys while female chimpanzees spontaneously play with games associated with girls.
These results suggest that sexual behavior would not only cultural origins.

http://www.ts-si.org/files/doi101016jcub201011024.pdf


According to Helena Cronin, is ignorance of the theory of evolution that would facilitate the thesis of sexism for the overrepresentation of men in the sciences or areas of high risk-taking and over-representation of women in literary, health or social.

Helena Cronin says:

"That's tens of thousands of generations that evolution favors certain characteristics in men - risk taking, for example - and other women - verbal communication, in particular. It is perfectly natural that these differences are reflected in people's choices, right? "




Testosterone have been linked to risk-taking in financial and career choices.

This conclusion results from the work of Paola
Sapienza, Luigi Zingales, and Dario Maestripieri in Gender Differences in Financial Risk Aversion and Career Choices are Affected by Testosterone


WHO recognizes the positive link between health and productivity.

http://www.who.int/pmnch/topics/maternal/201009_globalstrategy_wch/fr/index2.html


Research makes clear the link between biology and declining productivity:

"

http://www.fqpn.qc.ca/contenu/autresdossiers/fiches/menstruations.php


Performance differences in verbal and logical-mathematical sciences, as well as different interests

The former president of Harvard University economist Larry Summers spoke on the role of IQ in the underrepresentation of women in the hard sciences, especially mathematics and physical sciences. While women perform better in the verbal part, men do better in areas of computing and spatial representation.

http://www.lrainc.com/swtaboo/taboos/apa_01.html

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/22/8801

The philosopher Helena Cronin Darwinian from the London School of Economics, talks about the difference in mean and variance in most items mathematics and spatial representations. Men are overrepresented at the extremes. In other words, there are more men with low IQ and high IQ. In particular, this trend would be found in the hard sciences (mathematics, physics) but also in the spatial representation. Thus, we count 13 boys for every girl in the best in mathematics. The goal would differ also in trend (see the sociologist Steven Goldberg in The inevatibility of patriarchy that evokes the male tendency to seek positions of power). Women are more likely to engage in activities to help others, or in a relational communication. Thus even in the top one percent (1%) of the most talented women in mathematics, only one in eight career in this field, in engineering or materials science. Others are moving in medicine, biology, law and even in the humanities, typical areas to help others.

Note, however, that the overrepresentation of men in high IQ does not preclude the fact that it is a woman who has the highest IQ in the world: Marilyn vos Savant.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/mar/12/gender.comment

Men have an average advantage in spatial representations and numerical skills, yet these faculties play a key role in engineering and mathematics.

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/22/8801

93% of the successful candidates Lépine, which reward innovations in science and technology are male.

The largest variance is observed male from the age of 10 years.

http://www.iapsych.com/articles/arden2006.pdf

Men are overrepresented at the extremes math: twice as many boys as girls in the top one percent of schoolchildren.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121691806472381521.html

In the scientific excellence that can be apprehended by the Nobel Prize and other major awards, the distribution is not parity: 97% men and 3% women. For parity, should be given routinely to women scientists price for a century.

The scientific elite without affirmative action and no parity

Nobel Prize and other major awards

H

F

Total

% H

% F

Physical

181

2

183

98.90%

1.10%

Chemistry

158

4

162

97.50%

2.50%

Medicine

186

10

196

94.90%

5.10%

Mathematics (Fields Medal)

51

0

51

100.00%

0.00%

Economy

60

A

61

98.40%

1.60%

Computer (Turing)

48

2

50

96.00%

4.00%

Math / bio / geo / Astronomy (Crafoord)

52

A

53

98.10%

1.90%

Total

736

20

756

97.40%

2.60%

Source: wikipedia, Nobel Foundation, author's calculations, 2011

The greater heterogeneity male coupled with greater risk-taking does not necessarily lead to positive results for men. 97% of prisoners are men in 2010. There is therefore only 3% of prisoners who are women. 80% of the homeless are men. There are more men in the trades dirty, dangerous or unhealthy. These social data support the idea of a male overrepresentation in the extreme. There are more men at the top of the socioeconomic hierarchy but also more in the bottom. Supporters of parity evoke very rarely that these statistics indicate a "glass floor" if you follow their logic.

http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=NATnon05316

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/ipweb/ip1330/ip1330.pdf

Performance differences between men and women in the field of computing and in the written and oral expression are recognized by the INSEE.
INSEE explicitly states that women are better in reading but distanced numeracy.

"Women are less likely than men to serious difficulties or strong enough in reading: 11% against 14%. The difference persists if we include partial difficulties: 17% of them are in trouble or in part marked, against 23% men. This is the inverse calculation: 11% of men have poor performance, against 16% of women. The gap in reading performance between men and women are also at the end of compulsory schooling in framework of the days of call-up to the defense (JAPD), girls of 17 years experience less difficulty than boys in reading. International survey (PISA) among students 15 years shows the same trend, Just as the slight male advantage in mathematics. "

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ip1044.pdf

INSEE refers explicitly to the psychometric tests as a tool for understanding intelligence.

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ES424-425A.pdf

CREDOC conducted a survey on financial literacy French. The proportion of individuals who say they are not at ease in calculation is 16% for males against 28% in women.

CREDOC posed the following question: "Suppose you put 100 euros in an account paying 2% a year. You are no longer any payment on this account and you do not remove more money. How much will you on your account a year later, after interest payments? "

64% of men have found the right answer against 39% of women. Surprised by the magnitude of this result, CREDOC sought to neutralize the effects of structure:

"Nothing will work: econometric models confirm that equal age, occupation comparable, and similar income level equivalent degree, men are more often the right answer than women."

Moreover, the feeling of financial literacy is more common in men than in women.

http://www.credoc.fr/pdf/Sou/La_culture_financiere_des_Francais_2011.pdf

These considerations are consistent with observations regarding the game of chess. The rate decreases as women and as the level rises. These trends are observed in childhood.

Statistics on the ranking of chess players from the data presented on the official website of the International Federation fide.com reveal the under-representation of women, with a decreasing trend as and as we approach the summit .

In the top 100 chess players of all time, it has only one wife. The second woman was ranked 252nd rank.

http://www.jeu-echecs.bnpparibas.com/pagetype.php?id=14 #

Here the percentage of players in the best chess players in the world:

  3000 TOP

3.2

2000 TOP

3.1

1000 TOP

  2.1

TOP 100

A

TOP 10

0

Source: International Federation of chess, author's calculations, 2011

Anne-Marie Le Pourhiet, university professor of public law adds: "Two" studies "on recent women and daily press further illustrate the inconsistencies of speech discrimination. For women journalists, it is shown to First they "usually remain confined" (assuming a passive external element requires them to do) to household and family issues. It is therefore concluded the existence of gender-based assignments in newspaper offices, excluding women subjects "noble." But when the "researchers" examine the case of readers, they spot that women read newspapers much less than men because they do not develop enough the issues of concern, that is to say ... health, education, culture and leisure. We also learn that newspapers tend to privilege the discourse of expertise, power and knowledge, to the detriment of "the experience of close and the evidence "that women are more receptive, and that they expect most of the press that she" speaks of them "and that" touched by the emotional and emotion. " and "seekers" to conclude, again, sexism newspapers. Both findings are telescoped to reach an incoherent about, but the key to this type of study, is always put in the position of women victims , whether readers or journalists here. "

We learn that women, despite their success in school, only 13% of contributors to Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia. This lack of parity has led to accusations of sexism. It now refers to measures to increase the share of contributors. But wikipedia is open to everyone with pseudonyms do not allow to determine the sex of the person.


Women are "more qualified" but not "better educated"


Women have higher rates of success in the baccalaureate and are more numerous at the University.
But beyond this quantitative aspect, we must also consider the qualitative dimension: all pathways are not equal, neither in terms of selection at the entrance or in terms of outlets or pay on the labor market. The adequacy of qualifications with positions also conceals its importance.

But we know that men are drawn more often in and academic routes most profitable, most dangerous and / or with more responsibility while women favor, more often, comfort and family.

http://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/carriere/promo-hec-1983-ou-en-sont-les-femmes_249723.html?p=3

U.S. journalist Carrie Lukas discusses this trade-comfortable salary.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704415104576250672504707048.html

Indeed, it should be noted that most schools or training programs are selective and difficult, the fewer the women. While women are more likely to enter higher education (59% in the first cycle, 57% in the second cycle and 50% in the third round in 2001), they are only 22% in scientific preparatory classes.

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/donsoc06i.pdf

http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Juliette.Leblond/Parite/doc-mixite/diversite-parite.pdf

At ENA, enrollment women account for 37% but only 34% of these while they represent only 29% of eligible and ultimately 26% of admitted.

At the Polytechnic, among these are 19.5%, but only 16.7% of eligible and ultimately among admitted they are more than 13.7% for 2001.

At HEC, women represent 51.8% of those registered, but only 48.1% of eligible and 45.8% of those admitted in 2009.

http://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/carriere/promo-hec-1983-ou-en-sont-les-femmes_249723.html

http://www.evadoc.com/doc/30983/statistiques-concours-hec-2009

Work on performance in high schools show an overrepresentation of men in extreme and therefore in the most efficient. There would be a greater dispersion in men. A competitive environment would favor men while a non-competitive environment would favor women. This is what emerges from the gender-gap paper Performance: Does competition matter? Of Evren Örs (HEC School of Management and CEPR), Frederic Palomino (ENSAE) and Eloïc Peyrache (HEC School of Management).

http://www.cepr.org/MEETS/wkcn/3/3536/papers/Ors_Palomino_Peyrache.pdf

It is therefore clear that there is a tendency to heavy reduction in the share of women as and when one rises in difficulty, level and ambition. This process does not stop the course curricula, but extends to professional life.


Thus, although more often than men graduates, women are on the one hand less prevalent in sectors most selective or most suitable for the practice of a trade, and also create less companies.

The DCASPL states that:

"In all of the employed labor force, women are more educated than men, but among the entrepreneurs that difference is more pronounced. This does not suggest that women are more qualified than men to undertake, as level of education is incomplete information does not informing on the match between qualification and profession exercised. "

INSEE added that the experience premium on the diploma:

"The lack of experience seems more discriminating than the lack of a diploma. The degree of the entrepreneur has a positive impact in the first year, but is no longer a determining factor in the future. Indeed, the five-year survival of businesses created by graduates (Definitions) is lower than that of all creators: 44.5% against 51%. And, although they are surrounded or seek advice for the implementation of their project. young with a BTS have higher survival than those holding a Diploma equivalent General (Bachelor). Graduates represent 8.5% of entrepreneurs. They create new businesses rather than they resume. They are strongly committed in business services (computer services, telecommunications, research and development ...). "

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ip1064.pdf


Risk-taking male greater: start-ups, occupational mortality ...

The sense of initiative and willingness to take risks are not distributed equally shared. Thus, the question "What prompted you to start your business? "Women respond less often than men by which they create entrepreneurial spirit and often by chance. There are only 30% of female entrepreneurs, including simplified under the status of autoentreprenor (34%). 28% of entrepreneurs are women, they run 27% of French companies. According DCASPL, women entrepreneurs are working on average 46 hours per week as against 54 for men (17.4% of working time for men, ie 14.8% less for women).

Byrnes, James P., Miller, David C. and Schafer, William D. reported differences, for risk-taking, in Gender Differences in Taking risk: A meta - analysis.

http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=1999-13573-004

Same reasoning "all things being equal", we see that women run smaller businesses than men. Women have four times less likely (respectively 7 and 33 times less likely) than men to lead a company with 1-3 employees (down 4 to 9 employees and 10 employees or more) rather than a company without employee. Despite a more consistent risk-taking, the survival of businesses male is larger. Men are 1.2 times more likely to be at the head of their company three years after the women. Female entrepreneurship is carried further in the context of the couple or family.

http://www.pme.gouv.fr/informations/editions/etudes/bref_30_1eme_19mar_bd.pdf

Women head of nonprofit organizations are smaller and less often than men.

But, when control variables in the wage gap has similar characteristics is not significant.


Men are twice as likely to be injured at work than women.

Two thirds of occupational diseases have resulted in permanent disability contracted by men. 100% of work deaths from occupational diseases, 99% are men, for 2005.
http://cyrille.godonou.free.fr/Questions 20sociales/statistiques%%% 20of% 20accidents 20travail.htm

Table 3

Occupational diseases

# of diseases with stop

# of diseases with permanent disability

# of deaths

# of days lost

salaried workforce UNEDIC

salaried workforce CNAM

Men

22 920

14 427

487

3201803

9072122

10151148

women

18 427

7080

6

3717527

6905748

7727108

total

41 347

21 507

493

6919330

15977870

17878256

Source: CNAM-UNEDIC, author's calculations, 2005

Between 2007 and 2008, 90% to 95% of male deaths at work are

http://www.risquesprofessionnels.ameli.fr/index.php?id=94&no_cache=1&tx_kleedossier_pi1 [file] = 91

Occupational risks by gender, in 1984, 1991, 1998 and 2005

Percentage

* Proportion of employees who report being brought to their work locations to **:

Sex

Year

Employees (in thousands)

breathing fumes or dust

be in contact with hazardous

be exposed to risks of infection

risk of injury or accident

risk of traffic accidents (during labor)

Women

1984

7408

0

0

0

0

4.8%

1991

8396

0

0

0

0

9.3%

1998

9036

0

0

0

0

13.3%

2005

10 530

18.8%

18.9%

30.4%

33.4%

15.7%

Men

1984

10 194

0

0

0

0

26.4%

1991

10 406

0

0

0

0

37.4%

1998

10 481

0

0

0

0

43.3%

2005

11 720

44.6%

36.6%

25.2%

61.4%

42.9%

Together

1984

17 602

0

0

0

0

17.3%

1991

18 801

0

0

0

0

24.9%

1998

19 517

0

0

0

0

29.3%

2005

22 251

32.4%

28.2%

27.6%

48.2%

30.1%

Source: INSEE-DARES, 2005


http://cyrille.godonou.free.fr/Questions 20sociales/statistiques%%% 20of% 20accidents 20travail.htm

We can say that the world of work is harder for men in terms of health. More severe the disease and there are men.

In contrast, women have a greater share of lost days, including days lost to illness.

Table 4

Distribution of diseases between men and women

# of diseases with stop

# of diseases with permanent disability

# of deaths

# of days lost

number of employees

Men

55.4%

67.1%

98.8%

46.3%

56.8%

women

44.6%

32.9%

1.2%

53.7%

43.2%

total

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

Source: CNAM-UNEDIC, author's calculations, 2005



In the years 2009 and 2010.10 volunteer firefighters have died in service.
The total number of accidents in service, with or without a work stoppage, amounted in 2009 to 15,510. There are 196,800 volunteer firemen.


http://www.senat.fr/rap/l10-655/l10-6551.pdf


Working conditions of men are worse and more risky, they are twice as exposed to occupational risks than women, with the exception of infection risks.
It would be interesting to assess to what extent this affects the differential life expectancy between men and women.

Because of these riskier working conditions and a shorter life expectancy, one would think that men are funded health more important: it is not.


Men represented 59.4% of deaths from tumor in 2004.
Yet funding cancer is more oriented toward women. The management of cancer of the male genitalia (and breast tumors) amounts to a cost of 991 million euros in 2004 are 9.1% of the total cost of cancer, while the management bodies female genital and breast cancer rises at a cost of 1825 million are 16.8% of the total (see Economic analysis Cost of Cancer National Cancer Institute in March 2007).

As for the cost of screening, 63 million is spent on prostate cancer against 194 million for breast cancer.

http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?ref_id=natfps06205

www.e-cancer.fr/.../1286-4265etudeeconomieducancerpdf -

More generally, women's health expenditures are higher than men's health spending. Such is the case of pharmaceutical spending between 20 and 70 years. As for people aged 20 to 60 years, spending ambulatory (general practitioners and specialists) women, who averaged 811 euros in 1997, are higher than those committed by men, the latter amounting to only 620 euros. This is the case for spending on optical and dental care (see results of studies and DREES No. 182, July 2002, page 3).

Despite these objective data, some do not hesitate to talk about sexism in women's health, mentioning in passing the so-called wage gap from 27% to the same job. Men although they represent 56% of ischemic heart disease between 1996 and 2008, despite everything we are told that women are victims of gender-based screening.

The stress of management positions in particular sectors paying high risk taking, increased cardiovascular risks.

Women who reported feeling high stress at work have an increased risk of 40% of cardiovascular disease compared to those with low stress, according to research presented at the 2010 Congress of the American Heart Association Scientific. Job insecurity or stress related to the demand for results up to 88% could increase the risk of heart attack in women.

http://www.neo-formation.fr/08-actualites/etudes-enquetes/article/stress-au-travail-augmentation-de

"Generally, it would seem that work, the impact of stress is greater on women than on
men. "




http://www.psychomedia.qc.ca/stress/2007-11-20/stress-reactions-differentes-des-hommes-et-des-femmes

http://www.psychomedia.qc.ca/stress/2005-12-03/les-femmes-plus-sensibles-au-stress-que-les-hommes

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2010/751/fr/1/EF10751FR.pdf


In comparable situations, women are more prone to stress.
As shown by studies that measure blood pressure, cortisol and heart rate, women are at greater risk of stroke, in stressful situations. There is a remarkable correlation with their lower risk aversion.

http://www.neo-formation.fr/08-actualites/etudes-enquetes/article/stress-hommes-et-femmes-bien

It is not without interest to recall the data in the context of the entry into force of the law imposing a 40% quota of women on boards of large companies.

The differential in life expectancy, probably due both to genetic factors, behavioral and working conditions is 7 years older for women whose careers have 42% complete against 74% for men.

http://www.insee.fr/fr/themes/tableau.asp?reg_id=0&ref_id=NATCCF04563

Still some way contain the woman is worth half a man to retire, thus expressing the scandal of a lower pension of women, due to a lower contribution period.

http://www.bastamag.net/article1168.html

The myth of the double day actually hides preferences (family, comfort, private space ...)

Some argue that "the house the women do all the work." It is claimed that "women make 80% of domestic tasks. "


http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2011/06/29/1118132-a-la-maison-les-femmes-font-tout-le-boulot.html

Formally, the figure is false but it is mostly its use without further explanation that misleads the reader into error.

Women do not provide 80% of housework but 70.3% (race, households, child care, home improvement, gardening), which is certainly important. However, it is true that they are 79.3% of household chores and errands, a figure equivalent to that section, but excludes child care and the DIY and gardening. Recall, however, it is not as such tasks but time spent on these tasks, nuance is not without interest.

We'll try to contextualize this statistic which we mean that it does not say.

First, this figure of 70.3% of domestic tasks including part-time women and inactive women, very important clarification. When his spouse works while we do not work, you tend to spend more time on household chores. Inactive women spend 78.3% of the time and domestic work against 66.7% for women part-time and 63.7% for women full-time.

Then you must be aware of what these statistics. The nomenclature includes in particular:

- Shopping

- The fact of working with animals

- Hugs and kisses to children

- Games

- Walks

Clearly, the more a woman makes shopping more it is "victim" of his spouse who does not share this chore with it.

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/donsoc06d.pdf

Moreover, the relevant indicator is the time constrains that integrates work time and housework. This is where the legend of the double day for women collapses: women account for 49.8% of the time constrains of a household. Joint distribution is thus including part-time women (49.5%). There is, therefore, that women whose full-time constrained time is slightly higher for men (51.6%), with the precautions of interpretation called for by the above nomenclature.

INSEE raises an interesting question to which he replies: "How do men cope with household chores when they live alone, since we must eat, dress, clean, etc.. ? The time devoted to strictly domestic (cooking, cleaning, shopping, laundry, etc.). By men alone represents about two-thirds of the time devoted to these tasks by single women. "

http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/ip675.pdf

We learn that men spend only 2/3 of women's time alone with household chores. 66%, that's close to 57% when in a relationship with a woman full time (42% overall including inactive women and part-time). Invoked sexism loses its force as it is in fact not joint preferences regarding household activities.

75% to 80% of Dutch are part-time and 78% of them are satisfied with the division of tasks with their spouses in accordance Stellinga Marike van het From myth glazen ceiling (The myth of the glass ceiling).

DISTRIBUTION OF TIME

DISTRIBUTION MEN WOMEN

full time

Part-time

inactive (1)

Together

full time

Part-time

inactive (1)

Together

Time    physiological

Men

47.4%

47.3%

47.6%

47.4%

49.5%

49.4%

48.9%

49.3%

Time    physiological

Work, studies, training

Men

26.6%

25.9%

26.5%

26.4%

54.7%

62.1%

96.0%

65.4%

Work, studies, training

Domestic time

Men

9.3%

9.3%

7.8%

8.8%

36.3%

33.3%

21.7%

29.7%

Domestic time

including: Households, races

Men

4.7%

4.7%

3.5%

4.3%

26.4%

23.1%

14.1%

20.7%

including: Households, races

Child care

Men

0.9%

1.0%

1.0%

1.0%

29.5%

16.1%

17.9%

23.3%

Child care

DIY, gardening

Men

3.8%

3.5%

3.2%

3.5%

79.4%

78.5%

65.7%

75.0%

DIY, gardening

Leisure time

Men

14.4%

15.2%

16.0%

15.1%

56.7%

51.2%

48.0%

52.8%

Leisure time

Path

Men

2.3%

2.4%

2.1%

2.2%

49.3%

47.9%

36.6%

44.4%

Path

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

50.0%

50.0%

50.0%

50.0%

35.9%

35.2%

34.2%

35.2%

48.4%

50.5%

53.9%

50.2%

Constrained time

38.2%

37.5%

36.3%

37.4%

48.4%

50.3%

52.5%

49.9%

Constrained time + travel

full time

Part-time

inactive (1)

Together

full time

Part-time

inactive (1)

Together

Time    physiological

Women

48.3%

48.4%

49.8%

48.8%

50.5%

50.6%

51.1%

50.7%

Time    physiological

Work, studies, training

Women

22.0%

15.8%

1.1%

14.0%

45.3%

37.9%

4.0%

34.6%

Work, studies, training

Domestic time

Women

16.3%

18.7%

28.1%

20.9%

63.7%

66.7%

78.3%

70.3%

Domestic time

including: Households, races

Women

13.2%

15.8%

21.6%

16.5%

73.6%

76.9%

85.9%

79.3%

including: Households, races

Child care

Women

2.2%

5.4%

4.8%

3.2%

70.5%

83.9%

82.1%

76.7%

Child care

DIY, gardening

Women

1.0%

1.0%

1.7%

1.2%

20.6%

21.5%

34.3%

25.0%

DIY, gardening

Leisure time

Women

11.0%

14.5%

17.3%

13.5%

43.3%

48.8%

52.0%

47.2%

Leisure time

Path

Women

2.4%

2.6%

3.6%

2.8%

50.7%

52.1%

63.4%

55.6%

Path

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

50.0%

50.0%

50.0%

50.0%

38.3%

34.5%

29.2%

34.9%

51.6%