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Eiffel Tower Staff Strike After Female Workers Excluded During Religious Group Visit

From Tempo · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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News Named sources Outcome reported
  • The Eiffel Tower closed after staff struck over the exclusion of female employees during a visit by a Hindu religious group.
  • Operator SETE said the arrangement was a mistake and involved limits on interactions with women requested by the visiting group.
  • Paris Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire called the incident unacceptable, and the landmark was expected to reopen on Tuesday.

The Eiffel Tower shut for a full day after employees walked out to protest instructions that sidelined female workers during a visit by a Hindu religious group.

Staff condemned what they described as professional instructions that left women “sidelined, replaced and made invisible because of their sex.” The action followed a visit by about 100 men from the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, or BAPS, spiritual movement.

The tower operator, SETE, said the group had requested a visit in which “interactions with women” would be limited. Visitors found a notice saying the opening had been delayed for operational reasons.

sidelined, replaced and made invisible because of their sex

· Eiffel Tower staffThe employees condemned instructions that excluded female workers during the religious group's visit.

Emmanuel Gregoire, Paris’s Socialist mayor, called the incident “unacceptable.” He said equality between women and men would not end at the city’s historic monuments or anywhere else in Paris.

SETE acknowledged that accepting the conditions had been a mistake. Company head Ariel Weil said the operator would draw the necessary conclusions. “No motive of a religious order could justify a distinction based on gender or any other discriminatory consideration in welcoming the public,” Weil wrote on X. The Eiffel Tower receives about seven million visitors a year and was due to reopen on Tuesday.

No motive of a religious order could justify a distinction based on gender or any other discriminatory consideration in welcoming the public

· Ariel WeilThe head of Eiffel Tower operator SETE rejected gender-based discrimination in public access.
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Originally published by Tempo in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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