L'Égalité professionnelle entre les hommes et les femmes est-elle soluble dans la diversité?

Abstract

Over the past years, progress has been assessed in France and in Europe in the field of professional equality between men and women. At the same time, a debate took rise about "diversity" in society as well as on the workplace. Many companies have shown their will to work on this issue, but the way they do it shows that they are uncertain how to articulate promoting gender promoting diversity. Confronting policies fostering professional those fostering diversity reveals what is at stake. Indeed, it appears that gender difference is not a diversity "among others", and the multiplication of categories of "diversity" can lead to a situation in which the transversality and universality of the principle of equality, and especially the equality of genders, can lose its sharpness. The more equality develops, in the sense that diversity taken into account, the more it becomes necessary to stress the" of equality, especially on the workplace, where there are reasons to fear for the "fragility" of the principle of equality.