Justice dismissed this Friday, January 6 the association Dare feminism, which argued before the industrial tribunal of Bobigny that the contest Miss France, whose character she denounces “sexist”violated labor law.
The art of being a woman
The court declared itself competent to deal with the question raised, “meaning that (she) recognizes the existence of a job and a recruitment process” in the selection of candidates for the beauty contest, observed Dare feminism in a press release.
However, the prud’hommes rejected the other demands of feminist activists, a “intolerable decision which perpetuates a discriminatory and illegal recruitment process”regretted the association, which said it was waiting to learn the reasons for the decision before possibly appealing.
Discriminatory clauses
The activists of Osez le féminisme had started this legal procedure in October 2021, arguing that the organizers of the competition imposed discriminatory clauses on young candidates, such as being at least 1.70 m tall or being “representatives of beauty”.
The association also disputed the nature of the legal relationship between the organizers and the candidates: since last year, the latter have signed an employment contract with the production of the show, as “mannequins”. The activists believe that this contract should begin not three days before the election, but from the regional selections.
Is the Miss France contest obsolete?
During the hearing last November, the president of the Miss France Society, Alexia Laroche-Joubert, argued that this question did not fall within her competence because she was only responsible for the national election.
She had also refuted in front of the journalists that the election of Miss France could be qualified as “sexist” and denounced a desire to “censorship” from feminist activists.
