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Born in March 2013, Le Pariteur is an online application that aims to make everyone experience in an efficient and very concrete way the reality of the pay gap between men and women in France. Simply enter your gender, region, profession and seniority and the Pariteur will tell you how much more or less you earn than a person of the opposite sex in an equivalent position. This is a novel journalistic approach that is proposed here, whose purpose is less to explain than to involve the user in the subject.
Powered by data from INSEE, a partner in the project from the outset, and developed by the Wedodata agency, the Pariteur is considered a reference in the world of data-journalism and was awarded a prize at the 2013 Data Journalism Awards.
After an initial update in 2016 to take into account regional redistribution, the 2018 edition is back with a new regional comparator that allows the user to visualize and measure its wage disparity situation with other regions of France, as well as an update of INSEE data.
Antonin Lhôte, from the New Scriptures team, details the philosophy of the project:
« In 2013, the idea was to combine two journalistic approaches already in full swing and even more so today: the personalized information tool and data. We wanted to create an immersion tool that would complement other treatments in a coherent transmedia package, consisting for example of corner papers on the franceinfo site, documentaries on TV channel, etc... We wanted to make the issue of wage differentials "felt" in an obvious way and make the user project himself as simply as possible: how much do I earn? how much would I earn if ...?
The Pariteur's role is not to explain or debate, but to offer a demonstration. This is why it is hosted on the franceinfo site: it allows to contextualize it, to agglomerate around it other contents, articles, reactions and comments.
The second facet of the project is the processing and staging of the data. In the battle against fake news, data is a totally indispensable front where the challenge is to certify and label the information... The whole challenge was to create a tool that was both solid in terms of content (the database) and childish to use (originally, we set ourselves a maximum of 5 clicks to arrive at the wage gap result).
To build the Pariteur, we set up a production triangle with INSEE providing its data and expertise, and Wedodata designing and developing the tool.
Finally, and this is something that is close to my heart: the Pariteur is a living project - which is necessarily a challenge in the digital world. Bringing it up to date doesn't mean taking it out of the box, but making sure it fits in with the changing society, with its new professions and with the evolution of the subject itself. The tool remains connected to the times... and in short, useful. »
