It's a first.

In 2020, 42% of women were appointed for the very first time to senior positions in state administrations, a "historic" figure, the Ministry of Transformation and Public Service announced on Tuesday.

"This figure was 33% in 2016. It exceeds for the first time the legal objective of the balanced appointments system set since 2012 by the Sauvadet law", welcomed Minister Amélie de Montchalin in a press release, before a meeting , the same day, on the commitments of the ministries in favor of professional equality within the State.

A majority of women but few leaders

The hospital public service (FPH) and the territorial public service (FPT) for which only the figures for 2019 are available, recorded that year, equally, 47% of first-time women appointed to senior positions against 38% and 35% respectively. in 2016. “Much remains to be done to achieve a real cultural change in our administrations. While we have 62% of women in the public service, only 32% of them hold senior and managerial positions, ”recalled the Minister.

The High Council for Equality between Women and Men (HCE), estimated that this increase masked disparities between the different sides of the public service with 47% of women first appointed in the hospital public service against 37% for the State civil service in 2018. The target was set at 40% in 2017.

He recalled that "the non-compliance with the rules" had led, for 2018, "26 public employers (6 ministries and 20 communities) to pay a total amount of penalties of 4.2 million euros".

Parity favored by bonds

He also deplored that within higher education and research institutions, the obligations are respected but "without any real trickling effect on the glass ceiling".

“Where the obligations exist, parity is there: 46% of female administrators on university councils, 43% of professors on selection committees.

But the spaces of power and the technical fields remain male strongholds with 82.8% of university presidents or 70.3% of Research vice-presidents, 83.2% of directors of university institutes of technology (IUT) and 74% of teachers ”.

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