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France French Electricity Industry Unions
In France, a national inter-sectoral agreement on gender equality and gender balance in workforce composition was signed in April 2004 by France's main employers' organisations and trade union confederations. The agreement states that unjustified gender-based pay discrepancies must be corrected; that stereotypes surrounding employment areas thought of as 'women’s work' should be tackled; and access to training must be the same for everyone. Both the CFDT and CGT sought to have mandatory statistical targets for the reduction of pay discrepancies included in the accord. At sector level, in early March 2004 two employers’ associations - the French Electricity Industry Association (Union française de l'électricité, UFE) and the National Association of Gas Industry Employers (Union nationale des employeurs de l'industrie du gaz, UNEMIG) - and four unions - CFDT, CFTC, CGT and CGT-FO - in the electricity and gas industries, signed an agreement promoting gender equality in employment in terms of pay, career development, recruitment, working time and training. Women make up some 22% of the industry’s 150,000 employees. CFE-CGC did not sign, saying that the agreement was not ambitious enough.
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