A man has been convicted of sexism in a public place for the first time under a new law in Belgium.
A court in Brussels fined him €3,000 for insulting a police officer because of her gender, Le Soir reported.
It comes as France prepares to create an offence of street harassment, described as “sexist and sexual outrage”.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...42706.html
PARIS — Cat-callers, wolf-whistlers and harassers of the world, beware.
Marlène Schiappa, France’s junior minister for gender equality, is on a mission to hunt you down, by making unwanted public advances to women a punishable offense.
In the midst of a growing backlash against harassers, Schiappa’s initiative aims to put France on the global vanguard of anti-harassment legislation, by defining a practice that’s rarely encoded in law.
It’s an ambitious, if thorny, undertaking that’s part of a wider push by President Emmanuel Macron and the 35-year-old former activist for working moms to combat violence against women not just in France, but across Europe.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-g...e-offense/