WORKING BUT NOT LEADING
Sarkozy Pushing
At 80 percent employment, double the rate of 1962, and among the highest participation rates in the world, French women are critical not just to the French economy but also to the functioning of the country. But the glass ceiling and pay inequality are at least as real in the country of Simone de Beauvoir as most other major Western countries. A conference on women’s employment called by President Nicolas Sarkozy raised the issue, including the many causes and results, like how it is that 80 percent of women with one child work, but only 37 percent of those with three do. In French.
Le monde 27/11/07, Egalité Homme Femme,
La France peut mieux faire
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