Reply #44: Re: gender gap in France:

[joshcryer]

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2011/03/28/2003499289">French women and the gender code trap
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Elsa Dorlin, associate professor at the Sorbonne, currently a visiting professor in California, dispatches the first quantity pretty swiftly.

“French feminism is a kind of American construction,” she said. “Figures like Helene Cixous are not really recognized in France. In civil society, there is a hugely anti-feminist mentality.”

The standard structural markers of inequality are all in place: The figure proffered for a pay gap is a modest 12 percent, but this is what is known as “pure discrimination,” the difference in wages between a man and a woman in exactly the same job, with the same qualifications. When the Global Pay Gap survey came out at Davos, France came a shocking 46th, way behind comparable economies (Britain is 15th, Germany 13th) and behind less comparable ones (Kazakhstan scored higher).

This is really eye opening to me.