We need more communication on the subject

Appointed on March 23, the new President of the high authority against discrimination and for equality (Halde) wants to make the employment of women a priority. The dump is going to put the question of the retirement of women, announced. A special commission to reflect on the subject was created in the high authority. His first task will be to make recommendations to the Government.

The high authority has decided to put on the retirement of women. Why you raise this procedure

Women are the first victims of discrimination in the world of work: paid less than men in equivalent position, part-time suffered, interruption of career to raise the children... This debate on pensions allows us to develop a new blow of projector to this unacceptable situation which persists in the world of work. And these inequalities are found of course upon retirement. 76 of the beneficiaries of the minimum old age are women, the average pension is nearly 40 less than men. More it pushes the legal age, less they are likely to have a pension at full rate. We want to look at whether transitional measures of compensation could not be put in place, if there are no systems abroad that we could inspire us. We just created a working group which are part of the intellectual as Elisabeth Badinter, MPs as Marie-Jo Zimmermann, representatives of associations. We will make recommendations in September, when the text of Act will be considered at the Assembly.

These inequalities are before any reflection of inequality during the career. Is this the role of pensions to correct

As Eric Woerth, I think that it is the professional life something should be done. Pensions may not all repair, but it would be hypocritical to deny the problem, because inequality of wages and career between men and women will still affect pensions for decades. Could improve some mechanisms, for example open to couples constitutes reversion pensions, then only the widowers or widows of married couples have a right now. It may also reflect an accumulation of the minimum old age with an income of activity. We will remain realistic: our proposals will take into account the difficult context in which there are public finances.

According a recent survey, women executives feel more discriminated against than the employees. How to explain it

In these times of crisis, women executives are in a situation of economic fragility which they fear losing their jobs if they complain. For those in precarious jobs, often part-time because two-thirds of the part-time jobs are occupied by women, the situation is equally difficult. They have internalized the discrimination they may be. The inequality they suffer eventually seem them normal. But they exist actually, and as soon as the entry into working life, or even upon the obtaining of the early stages. One-third of women for example are interviewed on the parental project during their interview, it is inadmissible. We need more communication on the subject. When the pile has led a campaign on the risks of discrimination related to pregnancy, the claims on the subject were multiplied by five.

The unemployment figures show that men have been more victims of the crisis. Is this the case

Industrial employment, i.e. the rather male jobs, have actually been hit by the crisis and came to swell the unemployment figures, but women suffer the crisis in other forms. They work more and more sustained part time and with time more and more reduced. They also accept of deskilling to keep a job, including single women who are in need of work, that men are much less. Finally, there is an increase in layoffs without real and serious fault for women.