Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has described herself as ‘happy’ to announce that Paris authorities are being fined 90,000 euros after breaching a gender parity rule.
The employment rule was established to promote gender equality in the workplace, with no more than 60% of public service management positions to go to one sex, with Ms Hildago’s recent recruitment seeing 69% of the jobs go to women.
While Ms Hildago was able to joke about the ‘far too feminist’ city, she highlighted that the fine was absurd and unfair, noting that despite the gender parity rule, there is a continuing lag in promoting women to senior positions that needs to be addressed.