A law to try to reduce economic inequalities between women and men

The text will be tabled in the Assembly on Monday March 8.

For the symbol of course.

A proposed LREM law to “accelerate economic and professional equality” between women and men.

A stone for "the great cause of the five-year term", while feminist associations continue to believe that the government is not doing enough, especially in terms of financial resources.

Objective stated by its author, LREM MP Marie-Pierre Rixain: “Trying to resolve a number of issues with which women are confronted and which cause their daily life, their economic life, to be degraded compared to men.

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Extension of the benefit of places reserved in crèches for single-parent families benefiting from the family support allowance - 35% of these families, to 85% made up of single mothers, live below the poverty line.

To the “construction of an index of equality between women and men in higher education establishments”.

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It also complements a historic text, law of July 13, 1965, which had authorized women to open a bank account in their name and to work without the consent of their husbands.

Unrecognized fact, even today, with written authorization, the income can be paid into the account of a third party.

The text therefore inscribes the “obligation” to pay wages or social benefits “to a bank or postal account of which the employee is the holder or joint holder”.

What about the most precarious women?

Because it is possible to request the payment of a salary lower than 1500 euros net, in cash ... One way to get around this point that the bill does not regulate.

Fighting against the glass ceiling

Also noteworthy is the Copé-Zimmermann law, whose ten years we are celebrating.

Its objective set a quota of 40% of women on the boards of directors of large and medium-sized companies by 2017. It has been exceeded.

There remains a glass ceiling, the governing bodies.

Women are only 17% there ... The bill therefore provides "that companies with more than 1000 employees publish, each year, a gendered photograph of the 10% of positions of highest responsibility within them with the aim of to achieve a minimum proportion of representation of one sex among these positions ”.

This desire had been hammered home by the government, the objectives set are progressive: "30% at 5 years and 40% at 8 years".

“Will it be restrictive enough?

It's still the same difficulty.

But we cannot miss it, ”observes a LREM deputy.

The explanatory memorandum to this text, which reviews in detail the inequalities affecting women in all social categories, shows that there is still a long way to go.