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[Pourquoi une sage-femme et un ingénieur hospitalier devraient être rémunérés au même niveau ? C’est ce que démontrent deux économistes qui mènent de longue date des travaux sur les inégalités. Séverine Lemière est économiste, maîtresse de conférences à l’IUT de Paris-Rives de Seine et responsable de la licence professionnelle métiers de la GRH. Membre du groupe de recherche MAGE (Marché du travail et genre en Europe) et de la Cité du Genre, elle est spécialisée sur l’emploi des femmes, les inégalités professionnelles et salariales entre femmes et hommes, et notamment la sous-valorisation salariale des métiers féminisés. Rachel Silvera est également économiste, maîtresse de conférences à l’université Paris-Nanterre, chercheuse associée au Centre de recherche sur les liens sociaux (Cerlis, université Paris Cité) ; codirectrice du groupe de recherche MAGE. Membre du Haut Conseil à l’égalité ; elle est spécialiste des questions d’égalité professionnelle en matière de salaires, de temps de travail et d’articulation des temps, d’emploi et de relations professionnelles. Les deux chercheuses s’intéressent au contenu des métiers pour mettre le doigt sur les inégalités de revenus.]
The health crisis has highlighted a paradox between the social and vital utility of professions of care and connection to others, occupied mainly by women, and their particularly low levels of professional and salary recognition.
Two points seem essential to us here.
On the one hand, the fact that professions relating to care for others are undervalued, even though the content of the work is both complex, difficult and subject to numerous constraints and responsibilities.
On the other hand, it is possible to show that with comparable functions, complexities and responsibilities, the professions, depending on whether they are occupied mainly by men or by women, are not subject to the same recognition nor especially of the same remuneration. We hope that this text will allow us to better understand and recognize the professions of care and connection to others. For this, we rely on certain results of the IRES-CGT 2023 study. (see box).
The IRES-CGT study: “Investing in the sector of care and connection to others: an issue of equality between women and men”
From September 2021 to December 2022, we launched a study available online, with funding from the Institute for Economic and Social Research (IRES), entitled: “Investing in the sector of care and connection to others. An issue of equality between women and men ».
The study articulates three approaches. First, François-Xavier Devetter, Julie Valentin and Muriel Pucci estimate the cost and level of jobs created by public investment to ensure the needs of our society in terms of care and connections to others.
The second part is based on an online consultation giving a voice to professionals from fifteen care professions and the link on the content of their profession, their remuneration and their demands. Nearly 7,000 professionals responded. In the last part, three feminized professions of care and connection are more particularly studied and compared to masculinized professions.
This article first focuses on the professional experiences collected during the consultation with 7,000 professionals, in order to highlight the main characteristics of the care and connection professions, which are very feminized, and whose professional requirements are too often invisible. and naturalized.
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