30 November, 2010

The respect of laïcity in work places is not yet straightforward

News Analysis.- If the sight of young ladies more or less veiled in the streets of Angers doesn't seem to catch the attention of pedestrians, this could not be the same in working areas. A manager who hired a young woman coming from middle-east faces the comments of his workers who are not in favour of the emergence of religious clothes in their company, located in the city.

Apparently, the people wouldn't care about the religious opinions of their young colleague. They would rather criticize the fact that she is able, wearing her veil (blue with white dots), to impose the knowledge of her religious opinions to her colleagues. If, in England, it is not unusual to meet in superstores women dressed and veiled according to religious opinions, in France people seems -comprehensively - very sensitive to the respect of neutral behaviour.

In the streets, the situation looks pacified. But apparently, some women use their garments to attract the attention of the public. Agonized between their will of gaining an emancipation like others Western women and their fidelity to their faith, they seems to have found in a zealous implementation of their confessionnal dressing code a clever way to be at the center of the stage while playing, officialy, only a supporting part on it.



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