巴黎:"女人不得穿褲子"禁令有望廢除

【英文原文】

A law banning women from wearing trousers in Paris may finally be lifted more than two centuries after first being enforced。

The curious rule was first introduced in late 1799 by Paris' police chief, and stipulated than any Parisienne wishing to "dress like a man" must seek special permission from the city's main police station。

But a group of ten French MPs has now submitted a draft bill to parliament to remove the law, which has survived repeated attempts to repeal it。

The latest attempt to remove the outmoded rule was in 2003, when a Right-wing MP from President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party wrote to the minister in charge of gender equality. The minister's response was: "Disuse is sometimes more efficient than (state) intervention in adapting the law to changing morays."

【中文譯文】

巴黎擁有一條禁止女性穿褲子的法律。現在，這項實行了200多年的禁令終於有望解除。

這條奇特的法規最初是巴黎警察局長在1799年制定的。它規定，任何想要“像男人那樣穿着的”巴黎女性必須獲得巴黎警察局特批。

現在，10名法國議員向議會遞交了要求廢除該法的議案。

人們曾一再試圖廢除這項法律，但它還是多次逃過劫難。最近一次要廢除這條過時法規的努力發生在2003年。一位議員就廢除該法寫信給負責性別平等問題的部長，後者的答覆是：“在使法律適應不斷變化的現實狀況方面，把過時法律束之高閣有時比(國家)干預更爲有效。”