the sexist remarks of a manager

Yet another scandal exposed in Cash Investigation. Developed by Élise Lucet and her teams, this show is used to uncovering the little secret affairs of the world of finance and politics. Yesterday evening, Tuesday, May 19, it was on a topic more topical than ever that the survey magazine of France 2 was interested: the wage inequalities between women and men. If the entirety of the program caught the majority of viewers, it was a particular sequence which did not fail to shock more than one. We see an employee of a large bank making a phone call to her supervisor to tell her that she is pregnant. His manager’s reaction has (really) not gone away. “You tell us that you are pregnant. You got me … let's say … a little manipulated ", can be heard, among other things. Shocking remarks recorded live by the show’s teams that hit the web.

“So we have no right to get pregnant in peace?”, do we read on Twitter, or “In #cashinvestigation, a woman being blamed by her supervisor for being pregnant. Unfortunately, it still exists ”. While many of them were indignant at these very shocking comments, others tried to trace the source of the problem: "If we had paternity leave equal to maternity leave, we would reduce this worry."

Inequalities that are still far too entrenched

Inequalities between women and men are common in French society, and this in all sectors of activity. As a reminder, in France, men have a higher salary than women, up to 22.8%. How to cure it ? Cash Investigation tried to demonstrate that it was possible, when Zoé de Bussière, journalist, put forward the edifying example of Quebec. There, we practice pay equity, a logic implemented in the 2000s by budget minister Monique Jérôme-Forget. Based on a principle of common sense: “Equal work, equal pay”, the inequalities between women and men are less. When will this logic happen in France?