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Are women the heroines of the coronavirus?

2020-05-24T18:06:10.351Z


ANALYSIS - The return of a feminist approach speaks volumes about our now irrepressible tendency to read any phenomenon in terms of identity.


"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.

"We will never be the good little ones again

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Source: lefigaro

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