On the sidelines of a meeting with women entrepreneurs on the occasion of International Women's Rights Day, Emmanuel Macron felt that government offices are not sufficiently feminized.
"If we ask companies, we have to apply it ourselves," he added.
"There is still work" to feminize government cabinets, Emmanuel Macron said on Monday, after an interview in which the Minister for Gender Equality Elisabeth Moreno regretted the low representation of women in his cabinet.
"No political movement has put so many women MPs" and "the majority group is almost equal," said the Head of State on the sidelines of a meeting with entrepreneurs at L'Ascenseur, a nursery bringing together associations working in favor of equal opportunities, on the occasion of International Women's Rights Day.
"We still have to feminize the cabinets"
"The appointments that we make, in the posts of prefects, ambassadors, we are largely at our figures" but "we still have to feminize the cabinets, the pool of high commissioners in the administration", and this "exactly as we ask companies, "he added.
"I am happy to have achieved things," he added.
But "if we ask the companies we must apply it ourselves", he added, estimating that "there is still work".
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Elisabeth Moreno had indicated on Sunday having criticized Emmanuel Macron for not setting an "example" by having only one woman at his side among his closest advisers.
"I told him: 'Mr. President, you are not setting an example'", she said during the RTL-LCI-Le Figaro Grand Jury, considering that "if we preach something as important, we must set an example ".
On the other hand, she was pleased that the government has 51% of women.
The list of members of the President of the Republic's cabinet, available on the Elysee website, includes a list of 60 names, including 19 women.