Each year by March 1st at the latest, companies with at least 50 employees must calculate and publish on their website, in a visible and readable manner, the overall score of the Gender Equality Index, as well as the score obtained for each of its component indicators. This information must remain online at least until the publication of the following year’s results.
They must also communicate it, with details of the various indicators, to their Social and Economic Committee (CSE) as well as to the labor inspection authority (DREETS).
Four indicators calculated out of a total of 100 points measure:
- The gender pay gap,
- The gap in the distribution of individual salary increases,
- The number of female employees who received a raise upon returning from maternity leave,
- Gender parity among the 10 highest salaries.
In 2025, Pharea Group obtained a score of 80/100 on the Gender Equality Index; here are the details:
- Pay gap indicator: 33/40
- Individual salary increase rate gap indicator: 35/35
- Salary increase indicator in the year following return from maternity leave: N/A
- Number of employees of the underrepresented gender among the 10 highest salaries indicator: 0/10

In accordance with Decree No. 2022-243 of February 25, 2022 relating to measures aimed at eliminating pay gaps between women and men in companies as provided for by Article 13 of the law aimed at accelerating economic and professional equality and by Article 244 of Law No. 2020-1721 of December 29, 2020 on finances for 2021, companies that have obtained an index score between 75 and 84 points must set and publish improvement objectives to reverse the trend.
- Objective: Pay gap indicator
Conduct a compensation audit to establish a salary grid ensuring equity between women and men.
- Objective: Ten highest salaries indicator
Promote women’s access to positions of high responsibility through recruitment, training, promotion, and mobility.
We remain convinced that women have their rightful place in engineering professions!
We will of course continue our commitments to professional equality.