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It is not a day but a week of March 8, dedicated to women's rights in Bordeaux.
"
Equality is all year round
", announces Pascale Bousquet-Pitt, elected by the majority, thus taking up the slogan displayed in the streets of the city.
This Monday, at the Jacques Thibaud conservatory, the socialist participated in the presentation of the “
charter equality between women and men of the cultural establishments of the city of Bordeaux
”.
A new series of measures carried by the environmental town hall, which is only the visible part of its action.
The question of gender equality is indeed placed “
at the heart of the project of term of office
” of the municipality, “
with the aim of instilling it in all public policies
”.
This new 23-point charter now commits the city's five museums, the conservatory and the libraries.
It is based on four objectives: promoting the values of gender equality, guaranteeing equal treatment and equal access to programming, teaching and artistic and cultural practices, "restoring a mixed history and
fighting against gender stereotypes
", and finally adapt the tools and working methods used by the town hall.
A “gender-sensitive budget”
Concretely, it is a question of demonstrating, through openings, concerts and exhibitions, that “
creative genius has no gender
”, explains Claudine Bichet, first assistant to Pierre Hurmic.
In addition to exhibitions on women, such as that of SOS Méditerranée inaugurated in February by the mayor of Bordeaux, the city has been celebrating "
matrimony
" since 2021. A term attached to the heritage days which take place in September, to designate "
the memory often forgotten by creators and the transmission of their works
".
The city of Bordeaux wants to go further, by funding equally projects in favor of men and women in all areas of municipal action.
A desire that materializes through an experiment: the “
gender-sensitive budget
” (BSG), an approach also implemented in Nantes.
The objective: "
that one euro of public money spent contributes equally to women and men
", details Claudine Bichet, to avoid creating or aggravating inequalities.
A goal, however, difficult to assess.
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In the public space, the city of Bordeaux wants to make women visible through its “
viography
” commission, which names and “
names
” certain streets each year.
Recalling that only 6% of streets in France bear a woman's name (and 10% in Bordeaux), Dimitri Boutleux points out that in 2021, 16 streets, squares and places were baptized with women's names, and that in 2022 , 42 female names (and two male names) were chosen for streets.
Educational content for children
Within the commitments of this charter for equality, the city of Bordeaux is focusing on education, with "
internal and external communication that is inclusive and without stereotypes
", but also by restoring "
the historical role of gender inequalities in the production of societal imbalances, essentialist representations and stereotypes and to question the vocabulary used
".
The municipality also intends to "
produce specialized content for educational purposes for kindergarten and primary classes
".
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Finally, because the issue of equality necessarily includes that of violence against women, the “
Ask Angela
” system has been deployed in Bordeaux since 2021 and now concerns more than 80 establishments.
It allows a person feeling insecure to go to a shop or an emergency call terminal at tram stations in order to be sheltered, simply by asking them “where is
Angela
”.
"
Nearly 200 people have been trained to help victims or witnesses of harassment
," says the city.
So many tools to implement equality between men and women, but without trying to “
force the march
”, tempers Dimitri Boutleux, who wants to “
trace the path naturally
”.
Pascale Bousquet-Pitt explains that the objective of the city of Bordeaux “
is not to replace patriarchy with matriarchy
”, but to promote real equality of treatment between the sexes.
