A French feminist group awarded its “Macho of the Year” award to the archbishop of Paris for his remark that women needed not just a skirt but “something between your ears as well”.
Les Chiennes de Garde (literally “The Guard Bitches”), one of France's most outspoken women's groups, made the award ahead of International Women's Day.
Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois made his prize-winning remark about the difficulties of recruiting women to jobs in the Roman Catholic Church last November on a radio program, causing protests.
“The hard part is finding women who are properly trained. It's not enough to have a skirt, you have to have something between your ears as well,” he said.
He later apologized for the comments, explaining that what he had meant was “that people are not accepted into the Church depending on their gender but on their personal ability”.
(AFP)
法國一個女權團體將「年度沙豬獎」頒給巴黎總主教，因為他說女人不是只有穿裙子就好，「腦袋裡也要裝點料」才行。
法國最膽大敢言的女性團體之一Les Chiennes de Garde（英文解釋是「女性看門狗」）在國際婦女節前夕宣佈了該獎項得獎人。
樞機主教安得烈．萬特瓦之所以得到這個獎，是因為他去年十一月在一個廣播節目中說，羅馬天主教教會很難找到適任的女性員工。
他說：「困難的部份在我們找不到訓練有素的女性。妳只穿裙子是不夠的，大腦裡也要裝點東西才行。」
他稍後就對這段言論致歉，並解釋他的意思是「教會任人不在乎性別，而是重視他們的能力」。（法新社╱翻譯：袁星塵）
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