77 % of workers are recurrently confronted with sexism at work | EUROtoday

On May 6, 2025

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Lhe skilled inequalities are nonetheless essential at work for eight in ten ladies. The third 2025 version of the barometer on sexism at work carried out by the French affiliation of range managers confirms the persistence of sexist conduct within the skilled setting in France.

Unveiled Tuesday, the outcomes of the examine point out that 67 % of girls say they’ve been personally confronted with a discriminatory or sexist state of affairs inside their enterprise. There are additionally three in 4 ladies to face attitudes or sexist selections. In 2021, they had been 82 %. If the determine is barely dropped, it stays “alarming”, in keeping with the report. Especially since amongst these beneath 35, it climbs to 86 %. In the identical method, three in 4 ladies should handle sexist jokes, a quantity that has not decreased since 2023.

The 2025 barometer additionally makes it attainable to show the distinction in notion between ladies and men. While 40 % of the ladies interviewed deplore having been arrested by a sexist qualifier equivalent to “my big” or “miss”, one in two man judges these expressions “benevolent” or “flattering”.

Employees additionally appear to not see the sexist violence that takes place earlier than their eyes since two in three ladies say they’ve skilled sexist conduct in a gathering. Behaviors which can be invisible for 64 % of their male colleagues.

Men are additionally 40 % to suppose that they’re discriminated in opposition to because of the promotion of gender equality. Almost one in two males considers that the sharing of home and parental duties has no affect on skilled equality between women and men.

57 % of girls arrange avoidance methods

To keep away from present process unusual sexism, 57 %of girls say they arrange totally different methods to guard themselves: favor sure outfits (31 %), keep away from being alone with sure folks (25 %), don’t communicate in public (18 %).

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According to 43 % of the workers interviewed, the systematic sanction stays the precedence technique of motion to be applied to fight these inequalities. However, solely 46 % of them contemplate that firms are sufficiently concerned in retreating unusual sexism.

Nineteen organizations signatory to the #Stope collective contributed to this 2025 barometer with greater than 130,000 responses collected. This session is supplemented by a nationwide survey carried out by Ipsos with a consultant pattern of workers in France.

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