Discrimination in France Religious discrimination
They have vandalized jewish cemeteries, defiling 250 graves in one town alone.
People curse and spit at jews or people of other religions on the streets.
France has banned religious expression in public schools, such as; they are no longer aloud to wear headscarves, conspicuous religious dress, but the christian cross is discrete so it is allowed.
When employers do job interviews muslims have a 4.7% chance to get the job compared to catholics who had a 17.9% chance.
Certain body of beliefs such as Scientology, the Children of God, the Unification Church, the Raëlism or the Order of the Solar Temple were listed by parliamentary reports as dangerous or criminal cults. Ethnic profiling; checking
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There is also a certain reluctance to hire Maghrebis and Africans for better paid and more prestigious jobs. A group during a court session was targeted to their Jewish origins and fell victim to much anti-Semitic discrimination. Sexism in france
A study by INSEE shows that men are paid on average 18 percent more than women in the public sector and 28 percent more than women in the private sector, and in the banking and insurance sectors the discrepancy is as much as 44 percent. In France 80% of women claimed to have been treated with sexism at their work. They say they have been treated unfairly and have not been included in decision making, and have received rude comments from men, so laws passed by the government aren’t always fair to women. 93% of females support that the other working women have had this happen, and/or have seen it happen.
Men make 18-28% more money than women even if they are doing the exact same job, so it is harder for families with only mothers to support
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France, however, does not allow these rights as it only recognizes rights in the context of citizenship and human characterization.
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Women are 50 percent less likely to work in jobs at the top of the pay scale."
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