A meeting that makes him see things differently. The Deputy Minister responsible for equality between women and men, Elisabeth Moreno, is “almost certain“than the rules”outdated“from Miss France”will evolve“, she told AFP on Friday after meeting the candidates in Caen, where the competition is being held this Saturday, December 11.
With Alexia Laroche-Joubert, the president of the company Miss France, “we are in a discussion which, in my opinion, will shake things up“, Ms. Moreno said.”What I question is the rules that can be discriminatory. So we discussed it at length. She has shown the will to change some of these rules and I salute this will“, continued the minister who received in November Mrs. Laroche-Joubert at the ministry. The two women met again Friday morning in Caen.
In October, Ms. Moreno estimated “that the rules of Miss France were exceeded“.”In particular, we talked about the fact that a widowed woman or a woman who is already a mother cannot apply“, added the minister on Friday. Moreno believes, however, that”the misses, it is no longer that past time when it was “Be beautiful and shut up”. “Women have very little visibility in our country. I know that Miss France has been a way for many women to emancipate themselves, to be known, to be able to create their business, (…) their association (. ..) This should be encouraged“, she added.
“All the means that allow” that “I support them. Now we have to adapt them to 2021“, she concluded. In October, Ms. Moreno had judged”completely has been“the rules of this contest.”Why couldn’t a Miss France be ironic, could not be a mother or pose topless to fight against cancer?“She wondered. She was referring here to the controversy of Miss Guadeloupe in 2020. A candidate had indeed been disqualified after having produced a topless photoshoot which was nevertheless used to raise awareness about breast cancer.
Alexia Laroche-Joubert has since, during the presentation of the 2022 competition, announced that the candidates would for the first time be paid for the final but not for the rehearsals. “There are criteria to be changed to adapt to the times (…). I think that the single status is surely obsolete“, she also admitted. The industrial tribunal of Bobigny must consider on June 21 the conditions of participation of the candidates in the contest” Miss France “, according to” Dare the feminism “which seized justice for violation of labor law.
Tonight, the 29 candidates for the Miss France title will face a prestigious jury chaired by Jean-Pierre Pernaut. He will be accompanied by Amel Bent, Inès Reg, Delphine Wespiser (Miss France 2012), François Alu, Philippe Lacheau, and Ahmed Sylla. See you tonight from 9:05 pm on TF1 to follow the ceremony live.