Gender Contribution to Inequality in the Public Sector: a Regional Analysis

Regional disparities in terms of gender wage gap exhibited in the French private sector led to wonder is the same situation holds in the public sector. The depiction and the measure of the contribution of gender to wage inequality within the public services reveal the existence of a systematic bias against women, which holds in all the French regions. To go beyond this simple statement, the comparison of the results obtained in the various regions requires to propose an index of intensity of the contribution of gender to wage inequality allowing to analyse them with a unified scale. The intensities determined in every category and in every sub-sector of public services show that regions of the South and from the East of France are those where women support the highest disparities. On the contrary DOM or Limousin are little affected. The comparison of these results and estimations made for the private sector reveals a very important geographical correspondence between each other.