Wage inequality: since 9:22 a.m. this Wednesday, women have been working for free

November 7 at 4:34 p.m. in 2016, November 6 at 3:35 p.m. in 2018, November 4 at 4:16 p.m. in 2020… This year, it is from 9:22 a.m. this Wednesday, November 3, that French women start working for free if we refer to the wage gap between the sexes. The observation of the year 2021 is clear: 16.5% wage gap (according to Eurostat, the statistics body of the European Union) to the detriment of women, this is 1 point more than in 2020 A percentage "constantly rising since 2018", even specifies the economist Rebecca Amsellem who carried out, for the first time in 2016, this annual calculation dating the precise moment when women work voluntarily until the end of the year. . A date responsible for recalling that the principle of "equal work, equal pay", enshrined in law for almost 50 years, is still not respected.