“When women stop, everything stops!
": The women," first of chores "in the health crisis, called to make" strike of everything ", demonstrated Monday, day of fight for their rights, after a weekend already marked by mobilizations.
Wage gaps, discrimination, sexual and gender-based violence reinforced with the Covid-19 crisis and confinements ... Several hundred or even thousands of people, mainly women as in Paris, have also mobilized across France.
Saturday, gatherings had already taken place in Nice and Lille and Sunday in Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Toulouse or Bastia.
In a rare joint statement, seven of the eight major trade unions, including the CFDT, called for the opening of negotiations to "revalue the wages of predominantly female trades".
Commitments have been made by politicians and companies.
In Paris, between Port-Royal and République, “
first feminist strike chores
”.
Several thousand people, mostly women, marched Monday afternoon in Paris.
The demonstrators marched behind a banner proclaiming "First of chores on strike feminist", the slogan this year being to denounce the injustices suffered by women, accentuated by the health crisis.
The collective of 37 organizing trade union, feminist and political movements called for demonstrations to "put an end to gender-based and sexual discrimination and violence".
Among the slogans on the banners, "Rage against the machism", or even "Feminism has never killed anyone, machismo kills every day".
Departed from Port-Royal towards Place de la République, with several symbolic stops.
In front of the Sorbonne, activists read testimonials from students who claim to be victims of gender-based violence.
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From Anne Sylvestre to Beyoncé
: when feminism beats the pavement in chorus.
Songs by way of slogans: the choir "Nos lips revoltées" gives voice in the streets of Paris on the eve of March 8 with the classics of the feminist repertoire, from Anne Sylvestre to Beyoncé, hoping to "plant small seeds in the minds of some ”.
The choir joined the Place de la République on Monday with “You don't own me” (Lesley Gore), “Grown woman” (Beyoncé), “Frangines” (Anne Sylvestre), “le Pieu”, la “Lega” or even “La Marseillaise des cotillons”: the themes selected cover a wide spectrum, from feminist advocacy to struggles for freedom and social equality.
All in several languages.
Thank you Anne Sylvestre (and many others) https://t.co/FWAk0hANC1 #AnneSylvestre # NosLèvresRévoltées
- Rima ✏ (@Marie_TTT) December 1, 2020
A
“
band of rebellious women
”
created to counter sexism in politics.
Several LFI officials presented on Monday their "band of rebellious women" to "take back the place that they refuse" according to them to women in politics, claiming in the presidential campaign a similar importance to the American "squad" of Alexandra Ocasio- Cortez in the United States.
"We want to echo the feminist ferment" and "take back the place that we are denied, including in the media sphere", explained Manon Aubry, co-chair of the radical left group in the European Parliament
In Strasbourg,
“
scarlet maids
”
.
Some
300 activists responded to the call of the feminist strike of the "first of corvée" in the Alsatian capital.
According to the Latest News from Alsace, about twenty midwives disguised themselves as "scarlet maids".
The symbol of the scarlet maid, figure in Margaret Atwood's novel, was chosen "because we are slaves",
Strasbourg: the midwives disguised as "scarlet maids" in the gathering of the "first of corvée" organized on the occasion of # 8mars, https://t.co/iFU6qmhyOA pic.twitter.com/qKoOyzKz30
- DNA (@dnatweets) March 8, 2021
Transports in Île-de-France
: reinforced measures to combat harassment.
RATP and SNCF have strengthened their systems for combating sexual violence.
"It is the culmination of awareness," said Valérie Pécresse, president of the region and Ile-de-France Mobilités, in Châtelet-Les-Halles on Monday.
Some 6,500 RATP agents have been trained to receive victims, collect the facts, notify the security services and provide contact with associations.
"The emergency number 3117 (or 31177 by SMS), still little known but victim of its success", will be supported by rail security and extended to other transport services in France, underlined Sylvie Charles, director General of Transilien at Gare du Nord.
A UN Generation Equality Forum in Paris in June.
France will organize from June 30 to July 2 in Paris the Generation Equality Forum, a UN convention on gender equality planned last summer but postponed due to the epidemic, announced Monday Emmanuel Macron and the Executive Director of UN-Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
Anne Hidalgo
:
“
My sorority
”
stops at Marine Le
Pen.
The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, possible presidential candidate, pleaded Monday for better representation of women in power.
She insisted on emphasizing that her “sorority” would not go so far as to vote for Marine Le Pen in the second round, even if she is a woman.
On France Inter, the mayor of Paris pleaded for “the law to support and amplify parity.
There is a desire for #parity on the part of leaders, but the law must accompany and amplify it, whether in the business world, in politics or in the media.
# 8mars pic.twitter.com/5nH8KQL4AK
- Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) March 8, 2021
LREM deputies want to
"
accelerate
"
economic equality.
“Women's money has often been seen as extra income, sometimes pocket money.
All women, regardless of their background, whether or not they have children, must be able to benefit from financial autonomy and aspire to economic equality with men ”, for their benefit but also that of“ society. », Considers the deputy Marie-Pierre Rixain, president of the delegation to the rights of women to the National Assembly, which carries this text.
Thousand possible.
The government is launching an operation called “1,000 possible” in order to “give confidence to all women”.
Thus, all the little girls who will be born on this day - about a thousand are born each day - should receive the letter of an "inspiring" female personality to pass "a universal message of hope".
Among them, the designer Agnès B, the singers Pomme and Nolwenn Leroy, the writer Grace Ly, the sportswomen Mélissa Plaza and Clarisse Agbegnenou, the sailor Capucine Trochet and the activist Latifa Ibn Ziaten.