It is a new hope for advocates of gender equality at work.
During a hearing this Monday morning with the delegation for women's rights from the National Assembly, the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, said he was in favor of the establishment of quotas to promote accession women in management positions in French companies.
“France must position itself as a nation ahead and not as a nation behind on this theme,” he said.
With equal skills, women are always paid 10% less than men, it is simply revolting ”.
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Finding "infinitely regrettable" that only one woman runs a CAC 40 company (Claire Waysand, interim managing director of Engie to replace Isabelle Kocher) and deploring that the management committees have only 17% of women, Bruno The Mayor said before the delegation for women's rights from the National Assembly that "we must now be able to move up a gear, and therefore to enter into a more ambitious logic which involves quotas".
A bill for mid-March
To accelerate, the boss of Bercy wants the tabling of a bill in mid-March.
He also revealed that "women are more victims of the economic crisis than men", and thus plead for a legislative text "very short, very ambitious, with an extremely limited number of measures, but which really changes. the deal ”.
With the Ministers of Labor, Élisabeth Borne, of Higher Education, Frédérique Vidal, and of Equality between Women and Men, Élisabeth Moreno, “we are pushing for a bill to be tabled. in the week of March 15, ”said the Minister of the Economy.
Thank you to the minister @BrunoLeMaire for his resolutely proactive and ambitious approach to #equality between women and men in the #economy, during his hearing by @ AN_DroitsFemmes 🚺 pic.twitter.com/PpKfFTteGo
- Céline Calvez (@celinecalvez) January 18, 2021
This text should, according to the occupant of Bercy, "take into account the very different starting points in terms of parity between economic sectors", taking for example metallurgy on the one hand, which has few women, and services to person on the other.