This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model.
This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We
derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for French full-time executives aged
40 – 45 in the private sector. Our results show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job
increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females thus have a significantly lower access to high-paid
jobs than to low-paid jobs.