13 recommendations for professional equality between women and men – Echoes Business

Two directors of the Scor group trusted, Monday night, be confident Advice administration and supervision of large private and public companies should respect the minimum threshold at least 40% of each sex in 2017. this is indeed what is required, five years after its enactment, the law of 27 January 2011

If they recognize good progress -. more 30% of women on boards of directors or the CAC 40 monitoring (the France as well from last to first place in Europe) – the High Council for equality between women and men (HCEfh ) and the higher Council for professional equality between women and men (CSEP) prefer, in turn, secure the ground. They call on Wednesday 10 February, an interim evaluation report on the situation of 13 assorted proposals Marisol Touraine, the ministers of social affairs, health and rights of women, and Pascale Boistard, Secretary of State in charge of women’s rights. History to ensure that the objectives set by the Copé-Zimmermann laws and Sauvadet are actually met in 2017.

The recommendations of the report for the medium private enterprises? First, a pre-requisite remember the law. Above all, remember that the legal requirements are still largely unknown among medium-sized companies (ETI) in particular. Reaffirm “also the role of the board of directors and supervisory boards in monitoring the policy of equality, especially as less than half of the CAC 40 companies comply with the obligation of an annual equality bargaining professional (Article 8 of the law)

Better feed the pool of applicants

once these reminders issued, it would be appropriate to facilitate the measurement of progress. The report proposes to work with INSEE to create parity indicators, integrated into a single database – in partnership with the social partners – a monitoring indicator and finally, to make various data available on the website of companies. Another area of ​​recommendations focuses on the identification of monitoring bodies, as well as the supervisory bodies through warning procedures built with the support of an ad hoc unit after the General Directorate of the Department of Business economy and Finance and the financial markets Authority (AMF). Is also needed, the report says, a reflection on the effectiveness of sanctions.

Of course, the power mode of the pool of candidates remains the big question, to which the work of HCEfh and PESC respond with greater professionalization. This amounts to more objectively research directors and administrators, to increasingly sensitize employers’ organizations and business associations and to better support the ETI. Finally, other key points:. Term limits to thin the renewal of mandates and develop diversity of trades and programs to support entrepreneurship by women

By 2017, the female professional networks continue to turn to the branches. Including those of non-listed companies, which record results below target, with only 14% of women in the leadership

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