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."
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(guī)的努力發(fā)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,后者的答復是:“在使法律適應不斷變化的現(xiàn)實狀況方面,把過時法律束之高閣有時比(國家)干預更為有效。”