“…The average wage gap is around 27% in favor of men, (e.g., Meurs and Ponthieux, 2000). However, empirical studies on French data find that a large part of the gender wage gap is explained by the fact that women are overrepresented in part-time jobs (e.g., Meurs and Ponthieux, 2000;Le Minez and Roux, 2002), they are more likely to interrupt their careers and have longer career interruptions than men (e.g., Meurs and Ponthieux, 2000), they receive fewer promotions during their careers (e.g., Le Minez and Roux, 2002), and on average, female positions are less productive than men's ones (e.g., Crepon et al, 2003). The residual gap -considered as wage discrimination -appears marginal, on the order of 3% or 4%.…”