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Ministries present their action plan for parity

2021-07-27T18:37:24.690Z


Foreign Affairs, Armies, Justice, Interior, the ministries are bringing themselves into line with gender equality, declared a great cause of the five-year term.


According to the Ministry of Civil Service, the figure is historic.

In 2020, 42% of women were appointed for the first time to senior positions in state administrations.

"

This figure was 33% in 2016. It exceeds for the first time the legal objective of the balanced appointments system set since 2012 by the Sauvadet law

", welcomed Amélie de Montchalin in a press release.

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The amount of fines owed by ministries that do not comply with legal obligations was also halved (6 ministries had to pay 4 million euros in 2019).

But the minister does not want to stop there on this issue of gender equality, declared a great cause of the five-year term by the President of the Republic.

60% of women in the Ministry of Justice

Pursuant to the law on the transformation of the civil service of August 6, 2019, each minister was responsible for drawing up action plans for the coming years.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for example, undertakes to negotiate agreements with countries to promote the appointment of ambassador.

At the Ministry of the Armed Forces, the emphasis will be on training to make women aware of trades perceived as very masculine.

In Justice, priority will be placed on reducing the wage gaps that exist in a ministry that is more than 60% feminized.

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As for the Ministry of the Interior, it intends in particular to act to strengthen women's access to the highest responsibilities, in particular in the prefectural professions and within the national police. Significant commitments for Amélie de Montchalin, who recalls in passing “

that parity is 50/50 and not 40/60

”, and that there is therefore still some way to go.

Source: lefigaro

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