On 29 September MGEN (Mutuelle Générale de l'Education Nationale), France's leading mutual health insurance company and healthcare services provider with almost 10,000 employees, announced it had concluded an agreement on gender-based professional equality. The agreement details concrete actions that MGEN is going to launch following research carried out by the group at the end of 2020, which although indicating relatively small gender pay gaps for equivalent positions, did however show an under-representation of females in management positions. The text was unanimously signed by the trade unions (CFDT, CFE-CGC, CGT and UNSA).
Seventy-five percent of the MGEN workforce is female but only 56% of the managers are women. Thus the result of research comparing salary levels vis-à-vis age, seniority and professional position that it carried out at the end of 2020. The data were then presented to the social partners before negotiations on the drafting of the text commenced. “In order for the agreement to be concrete and to bear full fruit, it was important for the group to start off with a qualitative and quantitative asses
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