Study: France Needs More than 1000 Years to End Gender Pay Gap

Study: France Needs More than 1000 Years to End Gender Pay Gap

It will take the French more than 1,000 years to end the pay gap between men and women at the rate it is closing, a study claimed yesterday.

The gap dropped from 15.6 in 2010 to 15.5 per cent in 2018, researchers said.

Germany will take 100 years to close the gap, they added, and Ireland may never reach equal pay because the gap is still growing. 

The European Trade Union Confederation found the smallest pay gap in the EU is in Romania, at just 3 per cent.

The figures, which include part-time jobs, do not cover Britain but UK data shows the gender pay gap for all workers in 2019 was 17.3 per cent.

Esther Lynch, of the European Trade Union Confederation, told EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: ‘It was disappointing that there