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 Delphine Brochard, Marion Charpenel, Sophie Pochic. Pay equity through  collective bargaining: when voluntary state feminism meets selective  business practice. French Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, ⟨10.1057/s41253-020-00110-0⟩. ⟨hal-02493250⟩ Abstract : The article traces the story of equal pay  policy formation from the early 1980s to the present, from  agenda-setting to policy adoption through to implementation, evaluation  and outcomes. Until 2010, equal pay policy was implemented through  collective bargaining at company and sector levels within a legal  framework that failed to establish penalties for non-compliance.  Persistent mobilization of feminist actors inside and outside of  government contributed to breaking with this symbolic policy. A  financial penalty for non-compliant companies was established. The  article shows that the strengthening of the existing framework was not  sufficient to counter the reluctance of companies to make a solid  commitment to closing the gender pay gap, and the outcome appears to be a  clear case of “gender accommodation” in GEPP terms. However, recent  feminist mobilization around more effective implementation on equal pay  suggests that the struggle for more authoritative equal pay policies in  the firm is still on the policy agenda.                     