Gender equality in French civil service law

This contribution does not aim to offer yet another legal and historical overview of the advent of parity in the French civil service, but rather to question the possible theoretical and practical relationship between parity and French civil service law. Parity is deliberately defined strictly, based on its etymology, as the equal sharing of power between identified and asymmetrical groups, which distinguishes it from the concept of equality. Three complementary questions are addressed in turn: how "authentic" is the translation of parity into French civil service law? What is the place of parity in the promotion of gender equality in the public sector? Conversely, what is the resonance of the logic of parity within the French civil service model?