“I do not understand how Elisabeth Borne could accept such a regression”is surprised on franceinfo Tuesday, July 5, the former Minister of Women’s Rights, Laurence Rossignol after the ministerial reshuffle which sees the number of women full-time ministers reduced to five against eleven men. “Emmanuel Macron is making a worrying setback”, “surprising”adds Senator PS of the Oise.
Neither the general parity in government nor the presence of a Prime Minister reassures the Vice-President of the Senate: “It is not because we have a woman Prime Minister that this justifies that women regress in positions of responsibility”she laments.
“I have never heard anyone explain that as we had a male Prime Minister, we were going to have 70% of women in the Council of Ministers to compensate.”
Laurence Rossignolat franceinfo
Laurence Rossignol sees in this “regression” of the “human resource issues” : “I think they had a lot of trouble making their government”suggests the former minister for whom this explains that “The Mayor and Darmanin see their portfolio expanded and therefore gain weight”. The first inherits Industrial and Digital Sovereignty in addition to Economy and Finance, while the second gets Overseas in addition to Interior. “Even if there is a female Prime Minister, that is not enough to reassure me” she adds.
Increase the minimum wage and constitutionalize abortion
The constitutionalization of the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy would, on the contrary, be a positive signal for the senator, carrying a bill to this effect. She considers it important that “The government is taking over these proposals and tabling a bill”in order to simplify the procedure: “It saves us from going through the referendum.”
She also calls for an increase in the Smic “at 1,500 euros” which would be a step towards equal pay between women and men, since 59% of people paid the minimum wage are women. “To advance the social condition of women, we must increase women’s wages, therefore increase the minimum wage”explains Laurence Rossignol. “We must increase the wages of women” and therefore the minimum wage, so if Elisabeth Borne mentions this in her general policy speech this Wednesday, then “Her presence” as Prime Minister “has meaning for all women”.