Male / female inequalities in professionnal integration of masters graduates

Publication de la DEPP / Note d'information Enseignement sup. - Recherche

ERB, Louis-Alexandre | France. Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la recherche et de l'innovation (MESRI). Direction générale de l'enseignement supérieur et de l'insertion professionnelle (DGESIP). Direction générale de la recherche et de l'innovation (DGRI). Sous-direction des Systèmes d'Information et des Études Statistiques (SIES) | France. Ministère de l'éducation nationale, de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche (MENESR)

Edité par MENESR, Paris

On leaving university, there are more female than male Masters graduates. The professionnal integration rate, 30 months after graduating, is similar between men and women. However, women experience less favourable employment conditions than their male counterparts. These differences are primarily due to the subject of the Master's degree. In disciplines in which the number of women is the highest, opportunities in the employment market ar less favourable. However, in disciplines with fewer women, professional inequalities ar significant. In addition, regardless of the discipline, career pahts diverge, with more women in employment in the non-profit and public sectors, where pay is usually lower and contracts less stable. For a given discipline, type of employer and sector of activity, inequalities persist, above all with regard to pay, in which the residual difference is the largest, representing two-thirds of the difference noted.