女性管理職が多すぎ　パリ市に「ばかげた」規則で罰金

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】フランスのパリ市がこのほど、市当局の管理職に女性が多すぎたという理由で、罰金が科せられたことが分かった。女性市長のアンヌ・イダルゴ氏は15日、この決定を「ばかげている」と冗談めかして批判した。（写真は仏パリのアンヌ・イダルゴ市長。資料写真）
　仏公共変革・公務員省は、パリ市の２０１８年の人事が、男女比を定めた規則に違反していたとして罰金９万ユーロ（約１１４０万円）の支払いを求めた。
　イダルゴ氏は市議会で「罰金を科せられたと発表できることをうれしく思う」とし、これを知った時は「喜び」でいっぱいになったと述べた。２０１８年にパリ市の管理職に女性１１人、男性５人を配属し、管理職の６９％が女性になったことを責められたという。
　社会党に所属する同氏は「パリ市は突然、フェミニストになりすぎてしまった」と言い笑った。
　夕刊紙ルモンドの記事が引用した文書によると、パリ市は、管理職の人事で男女どちらかの比率が６０％を超えてはならないと定めた２０１３年の規則に違反したという。
　イダルゴ氏は、副市長と市のすべての女性職員と共に、罰金の小切手を直接政府に持っていくつもりだと述べた。「この罰金は明らかにばかげており、不公平かつ無責任で危険だ」と真剣な口調で語り、「フランス国内のいたるところに存在する遅れはいまだ非常に大きく、フランスの女性は積極的に」昇進されるべきだと付け加えた。
　同氏は「いつの日か男女平等を実現するため、われわれはスピードを上げ、男性よりも多くの女性が確実に登用されるようにしなければならない」と訴えた。
　これに対し、アメリ・ドモンシャラン公共変革・公務員相はツイッターで、罰金は２０１８年の人事が対象であり、その後この管理職の男女比に関する「ばかげた」規則は撤廃されたと書いた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/12/17-09:55）

Paris city authorities have been fined for employing too many women in senior positions, a decision mocked as absurd by mayor Anne Hidalgo on Tuesday.
The fine of 90,000 euros ($110,000) 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 told a city council meeting, adding 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 percent of the appointments went to women.
The management of the city hall has, all of a sudden, become far too feminist, laughed the Socialist, who was re-elected for a new term at the helm of Paris last year.
According to the text of the ruling cited by Le Monde daily, city hall violated a rule dating to 2013, which stipulates said one sex should not account for more than 60 of nominations to management positions.
- 'Finance concrete actions' -
Hidalgo said that she would take the cheque for the fine to the government in person, along with her deputy mayors and all the women working for her.
Taking a more serious tone, she added: This fine is obviously absurd, unfair, irresponsible and dangerous, adding that women in France should be promoted with vigour because the lag everywhere in France is still very great.
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 Amelie de Montchalin from the ruling Republic on the Move 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.