The Women's Foundation has just completed the first tour of France of its Train for Equality.
His last stop was in Paris, Gare de Lyon, on Monday.
The train cars hosted conferences, training and exhibitions on the theme of sexism.
“It's a way of bringing together French feminist associations and getting them to speak with one voice,” we explain to the Women's Foundation.
A train ahead of schedule.
On the eve of International Women's Rights Day, the Women's Foundation's Train for Equality was in Paris, Gare de Lyon, on Monday.
It was the last of his nine stages.
Inside, conferences, exhibitions, training to fight against street harassment, the Train for Equality was a meeting point for feminist associations.
Along platform 23 of the Gare de Lyon, the exhibition created for this train was open to the public.
In the last carriage of the train, about thirty people are seated peacefully.
Mostly women.
“It's not that we can't say anything anymore, but if we stopped making jokes about blondes all day long, it wouldn't be so bad.
Microphone in hand, Anne-Laure Thomas Briand helps them spot sexist phrases.
"It is important to identify them, to work on the problem and move the lines," says the director of inclusion and diversity at L'Oréal.
Anne Laure Thomas Briand is also co-founder of the association Stop ordinary sexism in business (#StOpE).
“When I was offered to come and give a conference on this train, I obviously accepted.
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The way to create a network between associations
"I have two hats, that of a woman impacted by sexism and that of co-president of an association helping the homeless," explains Charlène Linganga, founder of Hope.
On the sidelines of an exhibition about domestic violence, the young woman meets two members of the Elle's Imagine'nt association, which helps victims of domestic violence.
The opportunity to create links and present your own initiative.
“The Equality Train is also a good way to create a network,” she explains.
Women often find themselves on the street to escape a complicated family situation and now I know I can redirect them to the Elle's Imagine'nt association.
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Myriam and Shirley, two former colleagues of the association SOS femme, based in Seine-Saint-Denis, visit the exhibition to "see if they can be inspired by certain things and put them in place with the public they accompany”.
Like them, many activists and members of associations visit the train.
The exhibition imagined by the Women's Foundation aims to be the meeting point for the various French feminist associations.
For the Women's Foundation, “the objective is also to be able to speak together, with one voice.
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“Reaching station audiences”
“The goal is really to reach the station public, so that there is everything,” says a volunteer.
Some visitors claim to be feminists, others are simply curious.
For Sedji, it's a way to learn about an area he doesn't know well.
"I learned that one in three women was affected by abortion, I would never have imagined it," he says.
"It's not only a question of addressing an informed public but also of laying the foundations for those who have never looked into these questions", emphasizes Anne-Laure Thomas Briand.
With its nine previous stages in the regions, the Train for Equality seeks to decentralize the feminist struggle in Paris.
The Women's Foundation has also been able to find relay volunteers in certain cities to develop its action outside Ile-de-France.
A few weeks before the presidential election, the association wants to encourage the public to sign its petition in favor of the adoption of 10 measures in 100 days to advance the cause of women.
For the collective, the “request is clear: we want 1 billion and an emergency plan, in the first 3 months of the next five-year term.
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