Paris city hall fined for putting too many women in senior roles

[Me.]

“Paris city authorities have been fined for employing too many women in senior positions, a decision mocked as absurd by the mayor, Anne Hidalgo, on Tuesday.

The fine of €90,000 (£81,000) was demanded by France’s public service ministry on the grounds that Paris city hall had broken national rules on gender parity in its 2018 staffing.

“I am happy to announce that we have been fined,” Hidalgo, a member of the Socialist party, told a city council meeting, adding that she had been filled with joy when she learned of the penalty.

Hidalgo said she was faulted because 11 women and only five men were named to management positions in city hall in 2018, meaning that 69% of the appointments went to women”…cont at link.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/15/paris-city-hall-fined-for-putting-too-many-women-in-senior-roles?fbclid=IwAR2NwmnEBSrj8KHUCw0cWLbuOVukdBQsr_UwGg6bRGO57zvT1jiceuljWOA.

[LAS14]

1. Reminds me of what RBG said when asked how many women she would like to see....

.. on the Supreme Court. Answer: nine.

[Me.]

2. +1000

[musette_sf]

3. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

aaaaaaaand... let us remember that there have most definitely been years in the past that City Hall appointments were all MALE

[angstlessk]

12. And NEVER fined! n/t

[Guilded Lilly]

4. Women are such scaaaaary humans!...to men that is. Pffffft. Get used to it.

[Irish_Dem]

5. How many years have women been subjugated by men?

This is how many years women should be the in the leadership majority.

[Me.]

6. Right?

white men are in for quite a few years of panic...they better hope it's not centuries.

[Irish_Dem]

7. It's 200,000 years.

Depends upon whether white males are fast or slow learners.

[Me.]

10. THat Pretty Much Answers Itself

Doesn't it?

[Irish_Dem]

11. Yep. nt

[Brainfodder]

8. Did they get fined when it was all men?

[Me.]

9. I Doubt It

"“Yes, to one day achieve parity, we must speed up the tempo and ensure that more women are appointed than men,” she said.

Responding on Twitter, France’s public service minister, Amélie de Montchalin from the ruling La République En Marche party, acknowledged that the fine had been levied for 2018.

Since then the absurd rule on parity in management had been repealed, she noted.

“I want the fine paid by Paris for 2018 to finance concrete actions to promote women in the public service. I invite you to the ministry to discuss them,” she said in a message to Hidalgo"

[Solly Mack]

13. Decades & decades of all men. That's OK. Once, mostly women? Oh, the humanity! How awful!

[Me.]

14. Indeed!