Several organisations and unions are calling for a strike to denounce pay inequality. 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. 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. 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. French President Emmanuel Macron has been criticised by a junior minister for having only one woman among his closest advisers.

Source: The Local March 08, 2021 07:52 UTC