Is taking gender into account in university rankings is considered as incitement to sexist discrimination following French laws?
<p>I have noticed that for some time in France, most of the university rankings have taken into account the percentage of women and men in the scores assigned to establishments (the closer the percentage is to 50%, the higher the score is).</p>
<p>I wonder if this new criterion might encourage universities to discriminate against the majority sex.</p>
<p>It’s known that most of universities make everything possible to have the highest score in rankings because of reputation and funds and that discrimination is really difficult to be prove in selection.</p>
<p>Therefore my question is : Is taking gender into account in university rankings is considered as incitement to sexist discrimination following French laws?</p>
<p>Is there reverse discrimination laws that makes those practices legals?
Is there discrimination laws that makes those practices illegals?</p>

<p>EU law permits Member States to take any steps as appropriate to ensuring the full equality, in practice, between men and women. This is set out in <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32002L0073:EN:HTML" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Directive 2002/73/EC</a> (Art. 2(8)) and in <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:12012E/TXT&amp;from=EN" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Articles 151, 156 and 157-4</a> of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/France_2008.pdf?lang=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Article I of the Declaration of Human and Civic Rights of 26 August 1789</a> as embodied in the current French Constitution declares that:</p>
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<p>Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.</p>
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<p>Based on these sources, it seems the principle of equality among genders is firmly established at the heart of existing French law.</p>
<p>I have not been able to find any French law that prohibits positive action in this manner (contrary to the Directive), therefore it seems positive action as described in your question is allowed.</p>

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