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Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo
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Normally there is a shortage of women in management positions in companies and also in politics and administration - but for the city of Paris it is precisely the opposite that becomes a problem.
She is said to pay a fine of 90,000 euros for the discrimination against men when filling top positions in the city administration.
According to the French media, the fine was already imposed last week, and now Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo commented on the fine.
She spoke of an "absurd" and "unjust" decision.
According to the news agency AFP, the reason is that the city advertised 16 new management posts in 2018, of which eleven went to women and five to men.
The quota for women was 69 percent of the jobs - too high, as the Ministry of Public Administration thinks.
It relies on a regulation according to which at least 40 percent of such posts must be filled by members of one gender.
With only 31 percent men were disadvantaged in the Paris tender, it said.
Mayor Hidalgo of the Socialist Party said that she secretly felt "joy" about the notice of the fine.
She announced that she would hand over the check personally together with her deputies and other women in senior positions.
At the same time she accused the Ministry of taking an "irresponsible, dangerous" step.
"To get to parity someday, we need to speed up so that more women are appointed than men," she said.
In Germany, the grand coalition agreed in principle in November that there must be at least one woman on the executive boards of listed companies with equal co-determination and with more than three members.
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