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Hundreds of people, mostly women, took to the streets of Paris and other French cities over the weekend to shed light on their challenges, both at home and abroad, on the eve of International Women’s Day on Monday. .
In Paris, some 300 people gathered at the Place de la République, along with the feminist collectives “On Arrête Toutes” and “Du Pain et des Roses”, calling for women to “go on strike” on Monday.
According to the statistics organization Eurostat, women were paid 14.1 percent less than men in the EU in 2018, a figure that hasn’t changed much. A reality that has drastically degraded since the Covid pandemic.
In Lyon, around 6,000 people attended a festive demonstration, according to the teachers union Sud Education 69, in the Rhone region.
They also called for a general strike on Monday, noting that while 80 percent of school teachers are women, there are more male school principals, one in five, compared to one in eight women.
Female teachers earn 13.9 percent less than their male counterparts, they wrote.
In Montpellier and Lille, posters, banners and signs pointed out areas in which society must do more, be it for the right to abortion, the fight against inequality and sexual violence.
There were references to the need to combat domestic violence and femicide, which claimed the lives of 90 women in 2020.
Slogans were chanted, including the demand for access to medically assisted pregnancies (PMA), a debate that has deeply divided France.
In Nice, a march was organized despite the closing of the weekend to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
The United Nations has named the theme for International Women’s Day (8 March), “Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future in a Covid-19 World,” celebrating the tremendous efforts of women and girls around the world to shape a more equal future and recovery from the pandemic and highlight the remaining gaps.
