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After Iceland and Germany, Now France Declares War on the Gender Wage Gap (fastcompany.com)
France says it wants to make good on at least one-third of its motto of "liberte, egalite, and fraternite," by ensuring pay equality. From a report: The French government announced it is devising a "tough, concrete" plan to make the gender pay gap as much a thing of the past as Madame DeFarge's knitting habit. Per the Associated Press, France's plan for pay equity is still a work in progress. However, legislators may require companies to release the average salaries of their male and female employees and analyze them for disparities.
Gender and racial inequality holds across all job classifications.
Chart #7 of this series http://www.epi.org/publication...
I picked one line from that chart, retail salespersons. According to that chart, black female retail salespersons make $10.99/hr while white males make $20.12/hr
The bureau of labor statistics charts explain why: https://www.bls.gov/oes/curren...
If you are working sales in a retail store the average wage is around $11/hr
But if you are working sales in the manufacturing industries the salaries are $20+/hr
The EPI chart clearly doesn't adjust by industry. As usual, if you want to make more get a job that pays more.
Manufacturing industry sales people are not "retail sales people".
The bureau of labor statistics disagrees with you. Read the charts
https://www.bls.gov/oes/curren...