[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 benefits of professions of care and connection with others, carried out mainly by women, and their particularly low professional and salary recognition.
Two points seem important to us here.
On the one hand, the fact that professions related to caring for others are undervalued, even though the content of the work is both complex and difficult and subject to numerous constraints and responsibilities.
On the other hand, it can be shown that with comparable functions, complexities and responsibilities, the professions, depending on whether they are predominantly carried out by men or women, are not subject to the same recognition and, in particular, not to the same remuneration. We hope that this text will enable us to better understand and appreciate the vocations of caring and connection to others. We rely on certain results of the IRES-CGT 2023 study. (see box).
The IRES-CGT study: “Investing in care and connection with others: a question of equality between women and men”
From September 2021 to December 2022, with the support of the Institute for Economic and Social Research (IRES), we have published a study available online entitled: “Investing in the area of care and connection with others.” A question of equality between women and men ».
The study formulates three approaches. First, François-Xavier Devetter, Julie Valentin and Muriel Pucci estimate the cost and level of jobs created by public investments to meet the needs of our society in terms of care and connections with others.
The second part is based on an online consultation in which professionals from fifteen nursing professions are given a voice and the link to the content of their profession, their remuneration and their requirements. Nearly 7,000 professionals responded. In the final part, three feminized nursing and liaison professions are examined in more detail and compared with masculinized professions.
This article focuses first on the professional experiences collected through consultation with 7,000 professionals in order to highlight the main characteristics of the nursing and liaison professions, which are very feminized and whose professional requirements are too often invisible and naturalized.
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