INTERVIEW
For six months, she went to meet "women in yellow". In a documentary collection whose first issue, The March of Women , is to be broadcast this Monday evening on France 3, Anne Gintzburger draws the portrait of several women who occupied the roundabouts of France in the movement of "yellow vests". These women, often in situations of great precariousness, have shown through their participation in this movement their "need to reinvest the political field," she notes at the microphone of Europe 1.
The participants in the movement had different profiles, she recalls, with both "women in great precariousness", but also women who work just like their husbands, but "do not cope", or women only "single-parent families being the most affected by precariousness".
"To speak is a newfound freedom"
"I saw the women get up on November 17, but even more in January, to register in a word that I found very free and freed from any political recovery," says the director to explain his desire to launch in this documentary series. "They had this free speech to claim very concrete everyday things like living from their work, raising their children with dignity, but also to be considered". But, adds Anne Gintzburger, "to speak is a newfound freedom".
"The movement is mutating"
While one year after the beginning of the movement, the question of the continuation of the mobilization arises, Anne Gintzburger estimates that "something happened during these months which was partly used, which could not continue". But, she adds, if the movement has not been structured, "it is mutating, and women are in the long run, they work in everyday life".
Could this mobilization of these women be translated into an entry into politics? "In the etymological sense of the term", nuance Anne Gintzburger. "The women I met have this need to reinvest the political field, to be an actress of what is happening in their commune, their daily life".