"What keeps society going is first of all a bunch of women ": it is with these words that Christiane Taubira recently delivered her feminist analysis of the coronavirus crisis. She recalled in fact that they were in the majority " in healthcare teams, at supermarket checkouts, in teams that clean establishments ". And the former Keeper of the Seals added: " I think that women in positions of authority, of power, would have approached things differently.Others noted that many of the countries that managed the crisis well were headed by women: Germany, New Zealand, Taiwan, or Denmark. Forgetting in passing the blatant counterexample of Belgium, a country distinguished by the highest mortality rate per population and led by the French-speaking liberal Sophie Wilmès. The very serious medical journal The Lancet even called on governments to take into account the “gender impact” of the epidemic.
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