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The mayor of Paris, the socialist Anne Hidalgo, has called “absurd” the decision announced last Friday of a fine of 90,000 euros imposed on the municipality by the state for having “appointed too many women to managerial positions.” This fine, which corresponds to the year 2018, was decided by the Ministry of Public Function for breach of a provision on equality between men and women, which was later repealed.
“I am delighted today – said the mayor during a town hall meeting – by the sentence to a fine that they imposed on us” for “having appointed too many women to managerial positions”. In total, Hidalgo joked, “69% of the appointments, 11 women and only 5 men. “” The beauty of the bureaucracy, “he continued,” is that it knows absolutely no discernment and therefore does not fear anything. Hidalgo announced that he will personally bring the fine, accompanied by “my councilors, directors and all the women of the secretary general.”
I will propose to all the presidents of the groups, majority and opposition ”, to join the group. This fine “is clearly absurd, unfair, irresponsible, dangerous,” he added, and later denounced France’s “delay” in promoting women: “to promote and achieve equality one day – he said – we must accelerate the pace and do so that there are more women than men in dating.
The Minister of Public Administration, Amélie de Montchalin, acknowledged that the provision that gave rise to the fine, repealed in 2019, is “absurd.” “The cause of women – he tweeted – deserves better! I want the fine paid by Paris in 2018 to be used to finance concrete actions to promote women in public service ”. (HANDLE).
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