Overview
- The 2025 marker is set at 11:31:22 on Monday, 10 November, converting the pay gap into the share of the year women are effectively unpaid.
- INSEE data show a 14.2% gap on a full‑time equivalent basis, rising to 22.3% when all working times and sectors are combined.
- The date lands slightly later than in 2024, indicating only marginal annual improvement.
- Les Glorieuses estimates that, at the current pace, pay equality would not arrive until 2167.
- Advocates press for salary transparency, better pay in female‑dominated jobs, equivalent paid parental leave and conditions on public funding, as France prepares to transpose an EU transparency directive for firms with over 100 employees from 2026.