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Would the coronavirus have had an impact on the French based on their gender? In any case, this is what INED reveals in a study published on Tuesday, June 16.
The National Institute for Demographic Studies published on Tuesday, June 16, the repercussions that teleworking had during the health crisis on French citizens. It is clear that women have encountered much more difficulty at work because of the coronavirus. If we know that the standard of living of women has dropped, not to mention the increasing mental load concerning domestic chores at home, work has therefore been strongly impacted.
“A triple penalty for women”
"They are more numerous to have had to give up their professional activities than men, by choice or by constraint" explains Joanie Cayouette-Remblière, a researcher at INED. She thus sounded the alarm by denouncing the inequalities that persist between women and men: "When it comes to weighing the female and male professions, it is more often the former who will withdraw or be removed from the equation."
So, returning to this investigation conducted between April 30 and May 4, Joanie Cayouette-Remblière evokes "a triple penalty for women." To implement these conclusions and this survey, it is 2,003 inhabitants. In total, 41% of men feel they have a quiet place to work. While, a quarter of women work in an isolated room. In addition, wage inequality is one of the reasons why women have sacrificed their profession much more: "As women earn on average less than men, it is preferable to employ a spouse at the expense of their own, explains the researcher. Men can therefore more easily separate their living spaces."
Inequalities that may only last over time
48% of women interviewed and teleworked live with one or more children at the time of confinement, while men are only 37%. The reasons for these inequalities are explained by single-parent households: "There are more single-parent families in France with a woman at their head." we explain in the report.
So, could these inequalities disappear over time? It would seem that the confinement has left a mark on the hot iron in France concerning social inequalities: "For women who have had to stop working, renounce a contract or withdraw from a project they were working on, there will be no automatic resumption" explains the alarming INED report.
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