The debate "Women in power, what does it change? Led by former minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem and the former president of France Télévisions, Dana Hastier, was sold out on Thursday at the festival of political film.

A woman at the head of the state. It is not yet in France but in Denmark, in the series Borgen , which was projected Thursday afternoon at the festival Politikos, the convent of the Jacobins. And as a result of which the debate on women in power was held in front of a packed house.

The debate "Women in power, what does it change?" was sold out. | West France

"Is it easier to be a politician in northern Europe than in Paris or Rome? " , Attacks the journalist Franz-Olivier Giesbert. "Historically, the feminist struggle has been conducted for a long time in northern Europe , " says the former socialist minister, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, who quotes "the great women's strike of 1975 in Iceland, to show that without them, the economy was no longer turning .

"Stereotypes persist"

"But in this series, I have also seen stereotypes that persist, such as the fact that women are necessarily attached to their work / life balance, or that they are never involved in shenanigans. "

"I do not think that the woman in power is different from the man," adds Dana Hastier, former boss of France Télévisions , for whom women are not a homogeneous whole: "Some are ready to sacrifice their personal lives for power, others not. "

"Women are not" by nature "like this or that," says Najat Vallaud-Belkacem. | West France

For the Breton author Sylvie Le Bihan, "the brains of women and men are not biologically different: their leadership is because it results from a different experience. We have been segregated, and that may make us more attentive in trying to solve the problems. "

Do not "essentialize" women

All agree on the threat of "essentialization" of women: "To say that women are" by nature "like this or that, argues Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, will be used by those who want to perpetuate inequalities, for explain why women can not run for any type of position or responsibility. If we consider that, in essence, the woman is softer or cooperative, we will never give her missions that require fighting spirit. "

Until November 4, Politikos, political film festival, at the Convent of the Jacobins, Cinema Arvor, Tambour in Rennes. Full program on the website politikos.film