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Eiffel Tower chief to step down after exclusion of female staff during Hindu delegation visit
SETE said an internal probe found operational failings and promised gender-equality training after staff strikes forced a one-day closure.
- Eiffel Tower chief Patrick Branco Ruivo will step down at the end of this year following an internal probe that revealed "operational flaws and shortcomings" led to the "unacceptable" removal of female staff during a Hindu religious group's visit.
- Earlier this month, staff at the 137-year-old landmark went on strike, condemning "professional instructions that led to female employees being sidelined, replaced and made invisible because of their sex" during a visit by the BAPS delegation.
- SETE, the operating company, acknowledged that the Hindu delegation requested limited "interactions with women" and admitted "these conditions should not have been accepted." The company promised to accept the "consequences."
- SETE president Ariel Weil told AFP, "I restate the Eiffel Tower's commitment to republican values and to the equality of men and women," while requesting gender equality training programs.
- The 330-meter tower attracts 7 million visitors annually and has faced previous industrial action, but this leadership change follows an investigation into "operational flaws and shortcomings" in managing the controversial delegation visit.
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Employees of the monument had been ousted during the arrival of an ultra-conservative Hindu religious group.
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Song Jin-won = The representative of the operator of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, who sparked controversy by excluding female employees from work during a visit by a Hindu group, is taking responsibility for the incident...
·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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