Gender inequality in employment analysis and comparison - Pernod Ricard – Total – Schneider Electric

Pernod Ricard – Total – Schneider Electric are the three companies I chose to analyse and compare to represent the CAC 40.

As I mentioned before the project I created “Gender equality within the CAC 40” has the purpose to see if the French elite companies are working toward the reduction of inequality between men and women. This project is essentially focused on the employment theme.

First of all, Pernod Ricard is the company between those three which employs the highest rate of women as in general, taking into account the subsidiaries (Mumm, Martell, Perrier-Jouët, Malibu, Ricard), women represent 36% of the employees in 2016.

Coming second, Total the same year had 32.4% of its employees being women, on the same year.

Lastly Schneider Electric was late in 2016 compared to the two others with only 30% of women working there. However, the company has planned an objective of 40% of women employees to reach end 2017, so we should soon now if things progressed or not.

Climbing the ladder in companies is extremely important for career and personal progress, therefore, I wanted to check if women and men were giving the same chances or not, if it is the case, the rate of women in the management and the rate of women employed in the company should remain approximately the same.

Pernod Ricard has a rate of 34% of manager women which is close from the women rate within the company, it means that women are almost given the same chances to climb the ladder as men do in this company. One person out of three in Management position is a woman.

For Total the rate of women drops by nearly 7% regarding management positions, and only reaches 25.5% which means out of four people in the management board, one women can be find.

Schneider Electric also sees its rate dropping even more as only 22% of managers are women, making it an 8% different with the global number of women working there.

It is interesting to take note that the three different companies have a man as CEO which the highest position in the company, so the more the position is high, the more women are rare within the companies of the CAC 40 I selected.

In conclusion, even if the CAC 40 companies are making some efforts to reduce inequality between men and women regarding employment, there is still a long way to go as the most interesting position of those companies are only filled with men and the overall of women employed does not reach 50% of the total number of employees there. Plus, Except for Pernod Ricard, those women are not giving the same chances as men to get a status of manager. The companies have still to improve regarding this aspect and should continue to apply their gender equality plan until it gets better. We would believe that the France elite companies are socially more advances than some others but from this analysis it is not always the case. Out of the three companies, Pernod Ricard is the one which achieves better results and is more fair toward genders.