41It must also be recalled, as the Court held at paragraph 59 of the judgment in Case C-167/97 Seymour-Smith and Perez [1999] ECR I-623, that the best approach to the comparison of statistics is to consider, on the one hand, the proportion of men in the workforce affected by the difference in treatment and, on the other, the proportion of women in the workforce who are so affected.
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