Strike calls in France on International Women's Day
Men and women are being called on to finish work at 3.40pm on Monday to highlight the gender pay gap, one of many actions and demonstrations taking place around France to mark International Women's Day.
Several organisations and unions are calling for a strike to denounce pay inequality.
"On March the 8th, we will be on strike along with women all over the world to refuse to pay the price of the crisis with our jobs, our salaries, our bodies," several unions including the CGT, FSU and Solidaires said in a press conference.
The objective is to denounce the gender pay gap that continues to impair women's rights, but also to denounce the unfair burden that the past year's health crisis has put on women.
"The lockdowns have been very heavy burdens on women for the past year, whether it's in the health, work or home environments, increase in domestic violence. Not to mention the large amount of predominantly female jobs that have continued to maintained a level of normality during the lockdown," the co-secretary general of FSU, Murielle Guilbert, told Les Echos.
The below map shows the actions planned around the country on Monday.
📣 le 8 mars, c'est des évènements dans toute la France 📣
🟣 Retrouvez les actions près de chez vous sur notre site https://t.co/FR0xI5O79i !#GrèveFéministe pic.twitter.com/hVe5ccONxS
— Grève féministe (@greve_feministe) March 6, 2021
In Paris, a demonstration will start in Port-Royal at 1pm and move towards the Place de la RĂ©publique.
Organisations including Osez le féminisme, Les Effrontées and Unef have called women as well as men to go on strike on Monday from 3:40pm, in order to denounce the gender pay gap.
For a full list of actions around the country, click here.
French President Emmanuel Macron has been criticised by a junior minister for having only one woman among his closest advisers.
"I told him 'Mr President, you are not giving a good example," Elisabeth Moreno, a junior minister in charge of gender equality, told French media on Sunday.
She declined to say how the 43-year-old reacted, but she praised him for making gender equality a public priority and for ensuring balanced governments throughout his time in office.
Every cabinet since Macron came to power in 2017 has featured equal numbers of men and women, although both prime ministers have been male and the majority of the top cabinet jobs are currently held by men.
Macron has also been criticised for appointing GĂ©rald Darmanin as his interior minister - the man nominally in charge of the country's police force - while he is under investigation for rape.
French daily @libe has caused uproar by choosing a letter written by a rapist on its on #WomensDay front page. "Samuel", 20, initially contacted the newsroom through an email titled "J’ai violé. Vous violez. Nous violons" (I have raped. You rape. We rape). https://t.co/WhwDs7M7Mu
— Ingri Bergo (@ingribergo) March 8, 2021
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Several organisations and unions are calling for a strike to denounce pay inequality.
"On March the 8th, we will be on strike along with women all over the world to refuse to pay the price of the crisis with our jobs, our salaries, our bodies," several unions including the CGT, FSU and Solidaires said in a press conference.
The objective is to denounce the gender pay gap that continues to impair women's rights, but also to denounce the unfair burden that the past year's health crisis has put on women.
"The lockdowns have been very heavy burdens on women for the past year, whether it's in the health, work or home environments, increase in domestic violence. Not to mention the large amount of predominantly female jobs that have continued to maintained a level of normality during the lockdown," the co-secretary general of FSU, Murielle Guilbert, told Les Echos.
The below map shows the actions planned around the country on Monday.
📣 le 8 mars, c'est des évènements dans toute la France 📣
— Grève féministe (@greve_feministe) March 6, 2021
🟣 Retrouvez les actions près de chez vous sur notre site https://t.co/FR0xI5O79i !#GrèveFéministe pic.twitter.com/hVe5ccONxS
In Paris, a demonstration will start in Port-Royal at 1pm and move towards the Place de la RĂ©publique.
Organisations including Osez le féminisme, Les Effrontées and Unef have called women as well as men to go on strike on Monday from 3:40pm, in order to denounce the gender pay gap.
For a full list of actions around the country, click here.
French President Emmanuel Macron has been criticised by a junior minister for having only one woman among his closest advisers.
"I told him 'Mr President, you are not giving a good example," Elisabeth Moreno, a junior minister in charge of gender equality, told French media on Sunday.
She declined to say how the 43-year-old reacted, but she praised him for making gender equality a public priority and for ensuring balanced governments throughout his time in office.
Every cabinet since Macron came to power in 2017 has featured equal numbers of men and women, although both prime ministers have been male and the majority of the top cabinet jobs are currently held by men.
Macron has also been criticised for appointing GĂ©rald Darmanin as his interior minister - the man nominally in charge of the country's police force - while he is under investigation for rape.
French daily @libe has caused uproar by choosing a letter written by a rapist on its on #WomensDay front page. "Samuel", 20, initially contacted the newsroom through an email titled "J’ai violé. Vous violez. Nous violons" (I have raped. You rape. We rape). https://t.co/WhwDs7M7Mu
— Ingri Bergo (@ingribergo) March 8, 2021
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