At the time when the French Parliament is examining a bill to strengthen the place of women in the governing bodies of companies, the Quebec government has tabled a bill to protect ... men! The Montreal daily
La Presse
emphasizes that in public companies, men are in the minority on the boards of directors (CA). The power generation giant Hydro-Québec has
11 women out of 16 members. At Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, there are 10 women out of the 14 members of the board of directors. Same situation at Loto-Québec, where there are 7 women out of 11 members. (…) The parity zone has been exceeded.
Quebec does not wish to achieve parity stricto sensu, but to create a
“Parity zone”
in CAs between 40% and 60%
“of the total number of women and men who are members”
.
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Women rose from 27% in 2005 to 55% in 2018 on the boards of directors of state-owned companies, but they remain a large minority in private companies.
The administrators, who are now volunteers, will also be remunerated.
Crown corporations will have two years to comply with the legislation.
The adoption of a law to combat discrimination against men in CAs is far from guaranteed.
Any debate on the place of women, when they are in the majority, is taboo in a very feminist province.
Thus the leader of Quebec solidaire (left), Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, believes that Quebec
“Is a society which is not yet egalitarian.
Removing women from boards of directors, even if they are in the majority, and so much the better, it seems to me to be going in the wrong direction. ”
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