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France Just Passed A Sweeping Gender Equality Law To Make It Easier To Get An Abortion
"The most comprehensive Women’s Rights legislation in the history of France."
August 6, 2014
Women will be well represented in the media. Limits stereotypical images, increases sensitivity toward sexism, bans degrading images.
Abortion: The proposed law would allow French women to abort if they didn’t wish to pursue a pregnancy. The legislation would also punish anyone who tries to stop women from getting information about abortion.
Decision making: The proposal would force political parties, sports organizations and big business to include a larger portion of women in their management or decision-making bodies.
Parental leave: Under the proposed law, fathers would get workplace rights similar to mothers. For example, they couldn’t be fired within four weeks of the birth of a new child. Future fathers would also have the right to three days off to accompany their child’s mother to mandatory ultrasound doctor’s visits.
Child support: France would make up the difference on any unmade alimony/maintenance payments and would then try to recover the money from the parent who has not met his obligations. About 40 percent of French mothers are entitled to maintenance but receive it infrequently or not at all.
Beauty contests: Mini-miss beauty contests will be forbidden for under-13s. Anyone who organizes a competition for 13 to 16-year-olds needs authorization from local authorities. Anyone found breaking the law will be subject to a fine of €1,500.
Marriage/PACS: Every employee will be allowed four days off work for a civil marriage, known in France as PACS, and a traditional marriage.
In the work place: Companies caught flouting the current laws to promote equality in the work place will be barred from bidding for state contracts.
Domestic abuse: The length of protection orders for women who are victims of sexual abuse will be lengthened from four to six months. Emergency phones linked to police stations for women who are victims of domestic violence will also be made available.
Politics: In the year 2000 France passed a law forcing all parties to include equal numbers of men and women on party lists for elections. Fines were handed out to those parties who did not meet their targets. The move was credited with helping to increase the number of female lawmakers but the French government now wants more. As part of the new bill the government will increase the fines handed out to political parties who do not meet their objectives for equal representation at the 2017 parliamentary elections.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/08/06/3468135/france-gender-equality-law/
http://www.thelocal.fr/20140121/france-plans-to-legislate-equality
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/06/us-france-women-idUSKBN0G61OO20140806?9
France has a Minister for Women's Rights- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
It would be wonderful if a woman were appointed to protect women's rights, in America-
She could insure that there were protections for domestic abuse victims, improvement for women’s wages, improvements for paternal leave and a more equal division of childcare, insure that there was an increase female representation in politics, and a limit stereotypical images of women in the media.
Misogyny, Sexist, Fragmented- United States of America
France Just Passed A Sweeping Gender Equality Law To Make It Easier To Get An Abortion
"The most comprehensive Women’s Rights legislation in the history of France."
August 6, 2014
Women will be well represented in the media. Limits stereotypical images, increases sensitivity toward sexism, bans degrading images.
Abortion: The proposed law would allow French women to abort if they didn’t wish to pursue a pregnancy. The legislation would also punish anyone who tries to stop women from getting information about abortion.
Decision making: The proposal would force political parties, sports organizations and big business to include a larger portion of women in their management or decision-making bodies.
Parental leave: Under the proposed law, fathers would get workplace rights similar to mothers. For example, they couldn’t be fired within four weeks of the birth of a new child. Future fathers would also have the right to three days off to accompany their child’s mother to mandatory ultrasound doctor’s visits.
Child support: France would make up the difference on any unmade alimony/maintenance payments and would then try to recover the money from the parent who has not met his obligations. About 40 percent of French mothers are entitled to maintenance but receive it infrequently or not at all.
Beauty contests: Mini-miss beauty contests will be forbidden for under-13s. Anyone who organizes a competition for 13 to 16-year-olds needs authorization from local authorities. Anyone found breaking the law will be subject to a fine of €1,500.
Marriage/PACS: Every employee will be allowed four days off work for a civil marriage, known in France as PACS, and a traditional marriage.
In the work place: Companies caught flouting the current laws to promote equality in the work place will be barred from bidding for state contracts.
Domestic abuse: The length of protection orders for women who are victims of sexual abuse will be lengthened from four to six months. Emergency phones linked to police stations for women who are victims of domestic violence will also be made available.
Politics: In the year 2000 France passed a law forcing all parties to include equal numbers of men and women on party lists for elections. Fines were handed out to those parties who did not meet their targets. The move was credited with helping to increase the number of female lawmakers but the French government now wants more. As part of the new bill the government will increase the fines handed out to political parties who do not meet their objectives for equal representation at the 2017 parliamentary elections.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/08/06/3468135/france-gender-equality-law/
http://www.thelocal.fr/20140121/france-plans-to-legislate-equality
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/06/us-france-women-idUSKBN0G61OO20140806?9
France has a Minister for Women's Rights- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
It would be wonderful if a woman were appointed to protect women's rights, in America-
She could insure that there were protections for domestic abuse victims, improvement for women’s wages, improvements for paternal leave and a more equal division of childcare, insure that there was an increase female representation in politics, and a limit stereotypical images of women in the media.
