Parys The mayor of Paris has branded as “absurd” 'n € 90,000 ($ 109,369) boete opgelê vir aanstelling “te veel vroue” tot bestuursposte.
Elf vroue en vyf mans is in die stadsaal bevorder 2018, breaching a national 2013 heers, bekend as die “Sauvadet law,” which was designed to bring about gender parity in employment.
“11 vroue, 5 mans … The City of Paris was fined 90,000 euros because too many female directors were appointed,” Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Twitter on Tuesday.
Hidalgo joked that with with “te veel vroue” in management positions, “the management of the City would suddenly become far too feminist,” and derided the undiscerning “bureaucracy” that led to the fine.
“This fine is obviously absurd. Even more, it is unfair, irresponsible, gevaarlik. Ja, we must promote women with determination and vigor, because the delay everywhere in France is still very great,” sy het gese.
Hidalgo said she and her female staff would present the check to pay the fine to the Ministry of Public Service, and called for further action to achieve gender parity.
“So yes, to promote and one day achieve parity, we must accelerate the tempo and ensure that in the appointments, there are more women than men,” sy het gese.
Implemented in 2013, the Sauvadet law imposed a minimum rate of representation for men and women in senior management positions in public service, with neither sex permitted to exceed 60%.
France’s Public Service Minister, Amélie de Montchalin addressed the controversy on Twitter, noting that the provision in the law that allowed the fine was abolished in 2019.
“The cause of women deserves better! We abolished this absurd provision as early as 2019,” de Montchalin, whose own department will collect the retrospective fine, geskryf het.
“I want the fine paid by Paris for 2018 to finance concrete actions to promote women in the civil service. I’m inviting you at the Ministry to speak about it!” sy het geskryf.
