Workplace discrimination against French citizens of Arab, African or Asian backgrounds has fueled a search for solutions that would address France?s bias problem. One proposal would require companies with more than 250 employees to only accept anonymous resumes (without candidates' names, sex, age, address or photograph) to give all applicants an equal chance of getting an interview. Recent accounts of discrimination point to weaknesses in France?s integration policies which stress assimilating immigrants over encouraging the maintenance of ethnic identities.
See "France Grappling With Discrimination", The New York Times, December 5, 2004