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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Alison Hird

Why do women in France still earn less than men?

A woman holds a sign reading "It's time for change" during a demonstration calling for gender equality and an end to violence against women on International Women's Day in Paris on 8 March, 2024. © Abdul Saboor / Reuters

France's gender equality legislation has helped narrow the pay gap by a third over the last 30 years. But women in the private sector still earn an average of 22 percent less than their male counterparts. RFI looks at what's behind the gap and what could be done to close it.

France co-founded the United Nations International Labour Organisation in 1919, championing "equal pay for equal work", and in 1972, the agency wrote the principle of pay equality into its labour code.

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