The premises of INSEE, in Montrouge.
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AURORE MESENGE / AFP
Men are still the majority, but the proportion of female managers has increased sixfold in forty years.
This is announced by INSEE, the National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies.
In total in France, 5.2 million people have a job which corresponds to the category of "executives" and "higher intellectual professions".
This represents 19% of people in employment.
58% of these executives are men.
It is well beyond 50%, it is also well beyond 52% of men in all trades combined, the employment rate of women being even lower in France in 2019. 42%, that is, is still a proportion twice as high as in 1982, the reference date chosen by INSEE.
They are even in the majority among professors and in scientific professions and among civil service executives.
Conversely, less than an engineer or technical manager of a company is a woman.
Since in nearly forty years the total number of executives and higher intellectual professions has also doubled, and the overall population has greatly increased in France, there are 2,200,000 women in these categories in 2019. It is therefore almost six times more than the 380,000 in 1982. Finally, it should be noted that this overall category of executives and higher intellectual professions includes liberal professions, artists, journalists, engineers, scientists… It is therefore very broad.
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