2023-06-08 20:31:54
Inequalities “remain gaping” in France between the working and wealthy classes, in terms of income but also of heritage, academic success and even health, says the Observatory of Inequalities in a report published on Thursday.
In recent years, public debate has focused above all on inequalities linked to skin color, age or gender, to the point that analysis “in terms of social positions” may have seemed “disqualified”, lamented Louis Maurin, one of the two authors of this report, denouncing on this point a “widespread hypocrisy in different political camps”.
However, not only are managers much better paid than workers and employees – the richest 10% earn nearly three times more than the poorest 10% – but they are also much less affected by job insecurity and by poor housing. They also suffer less from certain health problems, to the point that a manager “can count on six additional years of life” compared to a worker, details the report.
“What is shocking is the gap between public discourse on equal opportunities and reality”, explained Louis Maurin, director of the Observatory of Inequalities, an independent body which draws up an inventory every two years. inequality in France.
School “does not reduce enough” inequalities
In addition, the “social fracture” is clearly felt at school, which certainly “does not increase inequalities”, but “does not reduce them enough”. Considered as a whole, the French population is more and more qualified, but in this area the gaps between social classes are not decreasing, underlined the other author of the report, Anne Brunner. Thus, between 2010 and 2020, the proportion of children of workers or employees having obtained a baccalaureate level diploma + 5 doubled, from 6 to 13%, but that of the children of executives and intermediate professions also, from 22 to 40%.
Despite the decline of the working world observed for at least 30 years, the differences between social classes “remain a powerful engine of fracturing” and therefore of tensions in society, insist the authors of the report. They therefore call for a debate on a fairer redistribution of wealth, but without focusing on a “handful of hyper-rich”, because in this case “we will not have settled anything at all”, according to them.
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