If some disgruntled people still regret the law on parity in politics of June 6, 2000, the legislative developments of the last two decades should finally convince them of its merits.
By imposing on political parties equality between men and women on list ballots and a financial penalty on those who do not present enough female candidates in the legislative elections, it brought women into Parliament.
This year, there are 36% senators and 37% deputies, compared to respectively 6% and 10.9% in 1998. It is deplorable to have to resort to quotas to repair an injustice, and this is generally the motive of the recalcitrants, but political voluntarism made it possible to set in motion a mechanism that had been stuck since 1946. However, the arrival of women in the two hemicycles brought to the surface subjects which would not necessarily have moved their male colleagues or which they would undoubtedly have put less thought into energy to defend.
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