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Woman minister gets wolf whistles in French
parliament
Saturday July 21, 2012 08:42:22 PM, IANS
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London: A 37-year-old
woman minister, who wore a knee-length floral summery dress and
high heels to parliament, faced a barrage of wolf-whistles from
male MPs when she stood up to give a speech.
Housing Minister Cecile Duflot also faced yells of "Phwoarr"
Friday as she tried to make a speech to the National Assembly in
Paris, The Sun reported Saturday.
She began, "Ladies and gentlemen... obviously, more gentlemen than
ladies", but her words were drowned out.
After the howling, the minister said: "I have worked in the
building trade and I have never seen anything like that. This
tells you something about our MPs. I just think of their wives."
Duflot was a former town planner who once wore jeans to a cabinet
meeting.
Members of the Union for a Popular Movement, the party of former
president Nicolas Sarkozy, were widely blamed for the abuse, The
Sun said.
A video of the incident caused an outrage, with many people saying
it highlighted the shortcomings of the political class.
MP Patrick Balkany, a close friend of Sarkozy, said Duflot put on
the knee-length dress "so we wouldn't listen to what she was
saying".
Women's Rights Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said: "Sexism has
no frontiers. We should set a better example."
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