The mayor of Paris, Anne Hildalgo, has been fined €90,000 ($109,369) for hiring “too many women” to senior management positions.
Hidalgo who has been the mayor since 2014 and is the first woman to hold the office promoted eleven women and give men in 2018.
Following the City Hall promotion of 11 women and 5 men to the city hall, the mayor has now been fined.
Hidalgo mocked the fine as “unfair” and “absurd” on Tuesday during a meeting of the city council.
“11 women, 5 men … The City of Paris was fined 90,000 euros because too many female directors were appointed,” Mayor Anne Hidalgo reacted on Twitter .
Hidalgo joked that with “too many women” in management positions, “the management of the City would suddenly become far too feminist.”
“I am happy to announce we have been fined,” Hidalgo, of the Socialist party, said during the council meeting on Tuesday. “The management of the city hall has, all of a sudden, become far too feminist.”
She blasted the “bureaucracy” that led to the fine.
“This fine is obviously absurd. Even more, it is unfair, irresponsible, dangerous. Yes, we must promote women with determination and vigor, because the delay everywhere in France is still very great,” she added.
