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Equal pay for women ordered

Paris: The French President, Jacques Chirac, has ordered his Government to draw up legislation to force companies to pay equal wages to men and women. He promised tough measures after it was revealed that in some sectors, women were earning one-third less than male colleagues doing the same job. He pledged to redress the balance within five years during his traditional New Year meeting with unions and workers' associations at the Elysee Palace. He told them he would be demanding that the Government draw up a law ``without delay''. ``Over the last year, I have called for negotiations on the equality between men and women in the workplace,'' he said. ``An agreement that established interesting principles and objectives was drawn up. Now we all have to go much further.'' But he was characteristically vague on how equality could be achieved, promising only to ``invent new ways'' of bringing it about.

Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005

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