Héloïse Goy, with Alexis Patri 10:53 a.m., February 23, 2022

The parliamentary channel (LCP), channel 13 of TNT, broadcast Wednesday evening "Me, farmer".

A documentary that traces the past and present struggles of women farmers.

Its director Delphine Prunault explains to Europe 1 why she took up this subject very little known and even less treated.

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One out of three French farmers is a woman farmer.

Women who, until very recently, did not enjoy the same rights as their colleagues.

Women who have long organized and mobilized for equality.

It is these struggles, past and present, still little known, that director Delphine Prunault presents in her documentary 

Moi, agricultrice

, broadcast Wednesday evening on The Parliamentary Channel (LCP), channel 13 of TNT.

She explains to Europe 1 why she wanted to give a voice to these women, aged 30 to 90. 

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"One day, when I came across an archive, I discovered a 1983 demonstration in Saint-Brieuc where a thousand women farmers were asking for a status for themselves. I started to take an interest in the laws, and I am went from surprise to amazement, discovering that it had taken several decades for them to obtain full and complete social status, rights equal to those of their husbands, not to mention maternity leave equal to that of employed women who do not only arrived in 2019", explains Delphine Prunault.

"So I wanted to trace all this history, considering that they were a bit forgotten by the Republic."

“There is still an ordinary, ambient, latent sexism”

The film tells the emancipation of these "forgotten of the Republic" through the testimonies of several pioneers who led this fight to get out of social, political and professional invisibility.

While women farmers have now won many rights, thanks to the involvement of their elders, Delphine Prunault specifies that there is still a long way to go. 

"For young people, and especially young women, the situation remains difficult. In particular because they have to face the mistrust of bankers. They have more difficulty in accessing land. There is still an ordinary, ambient sexism, latent", regrets the director.

"While these women are also really the future of this essential sector, since they represent 40% to 45% of students in agricultural high schools. But they are still asked to prove their legitimacy more than boys."

Moi agricultrice 

airs Wednesday evening on LCP from 8:30 p.m.