42If the statistics available indicate that, of the workforce, the percentage of part-time workers who are women is considerably higher than the percentage of part-time workers who are men, it will be necessary to hold that such a situation is evidence of apparent sex discrimination, unless the legislation at issue in the main proceedings is justified by objective factors wholly unrelated to any discrimination based on sex (see, to that effect, Seymour-Smith and Perez, paragraphs 60 to 63).
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