Harassment, violence against women, equal pay... Eight presidential candidates presented their proposals for women on Monday, March 7, in the program "face aux Françaises" by LCI and Elle magazine, on the eve of the day. international women's rights.
Emmanuel Macron, just candidate, said, in a sequence recorded upstream because of Ukrainian news, that the "great cause" of his next five-year term would be "still" gender equality, because there is still "much to do".
🔴➡️ On domestic violence
🗣️ @EmmanuelMacron: "We are going to set up a file of perpetrators of domestic violence (...) We will further reduce the time taken to take care of (...) We will put in place a system of online complaint"
📺#LCI @ELLEfrance pic.twitter.com/2pIQ9YlPlV
— LCI (@LCI) March 7, 2022
The outgoing president notably proposed "tripling the amount of the fine for offenses of sexist contempt", "doubling the number of investigators on the subjects of intra-family violence and violence against women" and the "creation of a file of perpetrators of domestic violence".
The candidate of the National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, said she wanted "street harassers to be registered as sex offenders".
She also wanted to "create a status for women with endometriosis and free contraception for all [and] not just for those under 25", as was recently put in place by the government.
🔴➡️ Julie, reader @ELLEfrance questions Marine #LePen on the reimbursement of contraception
🗣️@MLP_officiel also offers to reimburse contraception in full, even beyond 25 years old.
📺#FaceAuxFrançaises with #La26 pic.twitter.com/wEnQ4KheU5
— LCI (@LCI) March 7, 2022
Ecologist Yannick Jadot wants the possibility of filing complaints in hospitals for victims of rape and verbalizing more street harassers, with more police.
It also plans to "reverse the burden of proof", in terms of wage inequality, so that it is up to the company to justify any wage inequalities.
🔴 What are you doing to get girls to go to science?
🗣️@yjadot: "The engineer's imagination is masculine. Scientific and manual professions must also be accessible to girls and boys."
📺Explanations #FaceAuxFrançaises pic.twitter.com/PnSg0VyhTv
— LCI (@LCI) March 7, 2022
Free distribution of periodic protections
Same proposals for the socialist Anne Hidalgo who also offers a billion euros against violence against women, in particular for places of reception, and faster justice, with social workers in the police stations to receive their complaints.
🔴➡️ On domestic violence
🗣️ @Anne_Hidalgo: "It's been 5 years that associations have been fighting, asking for resources and not getting them (...) I propose 1 billion euros, very tight legislation for example on this that Spain did"
📺#LCI @ELLEfrance pic.twitter.com/2ShNUfVgOd
— LCI (@LCI) March 7, 2022
The candidate La France insoumise (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon pleaded for a police force specializing in cyberbullying.
He also wanted "more referents in transport" and "more education" vis-à-vis the boys.
He also recalled that he was proposing a 10% bonus for women in companies that do not respect the law on equality.
🔴➡️Karine, reader @ELLEfrance questions #Melenchon on #cyberharcèlement, this scourge that mainly attacks and traumatizes women
🗣️@JLMelenchon: "We need a large cyberspace police that will cover all kinds of areas"
📺 #FaceAuxFrançaises on #La26 pic.twitter.com/GtHmagUGqi
— LCI (@LCI) March 7, 2022
The candidate Les Républicains (LR) Valérie Pécresse wants to extend the free distribution of periodic protection in all Crous and tax these products at 2.5% as "essential goods".
She also wants "to prohibit the wearing of the forced veil for little girls in the street, punishable by a fine".
🔴➡️ Do you ban the forced veil for girls?
🗣️ @vpecresse: "We must give little girls the freedom to determine and emancipate themselves, we must not lock them into a female representation."
📺 Explanations #Faceauxfrancaises with @ELLEfrance pic.twitter.com/tCCWNvH8A7
— LCI (@LCI) March 7, 2022
Éric Zemmour, Reconquest candidate!, defended him as a "fundamental measure" his proposal to revitalize rural areas with a birth bonus of "10,000 euros".
He also judged that "it was essentially because women do not choose the same professions that there [was] wage differences between men and women".
🔴➡️What to do for the education of young women?
🗣️@ZemmourEric: "I propose a school of excellence, merit, where girls can show their talents and qualities. Girls work much more, and much better."
📺#Faceauxfrancaises / @ELLEfrance pic.twitter.com/TA071GtM6P
— LCI (@LCI) March 7, 2022
The communist Fabien Roussel wants to implement equal pay "in one year" and will appoint "judicial administrators at the head of companies that refuse it".
🔴➡️On equal pay
🗣️ @Fabien_Roussel: "If at some point, we don't say that it's unbearable for women to earn less than men, we still have 10 years to go. We have to support companies to wage increases."
📺 #Faceauxfrancaises pic.twitter.com/Fh7wV3siat
— LCI (@LCI) March 7, 2022
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