On this new International Women's Rights Day, March 8, here are some figures on gender inequalities and their evolution, but also some keys on the origin of its date!
This 8th of March marks the date of International Women's Rights Day. Every year, this initiative, officialized by the United Nations in 1977, highlights the inequalities between women and men that still need to be addressed, with figures to back it up... especially in the professional world. On March 7, 2022, the Ministry of Labor published its fourth annual edition of the Professional Equality Index. This is used to measure equal pay in companies with at least 50 employees. And the average score of companies has increased from 85 points out of 100 in 2020 to 86 points out of 100 in 2021.
Work Minister Elisabeth Borne additionally declared to Le Echos on March 7 that 16 organizations that have "not arrived at 75 focuses for three sequential years" will confront monetary punishments interestingly. The normal net month-to-month compensation of ladies in France is, as indicated by INSEE toward the finish of 2019, 16.8% lower than that of men. Ladies' freedoms activists likewise censure, in addition to other things, viciousness against ladies and femicide, against the scenery of sexism and man-centric society, realizing that in 2021, 113 ladies were killed by their life partners or ex-mates.
Origins and history of Women's Rights Day
Assuming the United Nations officialized this festival (and its date) in 1977 and it was laid out in France in 1982 by President François Mitterrand, the beginning of Women's Day, which turned into "Ladies' Rights Day", is to be set aside further back in opportunity: at the hour of the battle of ladies laborers for better working circumstances, and that of suffragettes for the option to cast a ballot, in the initial segment of the twentieth century. In 1957, the paper l'Humanité recognized the centennial of March 8, 1857, the day when "the ladies piece of clothing laborers of New York City walked in the roads, similar to men, conveying notices and pennants" for better working circumstances and regard for their respect. In 1908, on June 21 this time, it was the turn of 250,000 suffragettes to request the option to decide in favor of ladies in London. The finish of the nineteenth and start of the twentieth century had a sample of liberation that would prompt the development of International Women's Day many years after the fact. The main International Women's Day occurred on March 19, 1911 (in Europe and in the United States), and as of now supported for additional privileges.
After the marking of the United Nations Charter in San Francisco in 1945 to broadcast orientation correspondence as a major right, showings for orientation balance are held all through the world one time per year. These days are likewise a valuable chance to check out the current circumstance, especially as far as figures. Ladies activists' affiliations additionally exploit these days to celebrate ongoing increases and to set their expectations heard.
The date of March 8
The choice of March 8 as a date dedicated to women's rights comes from communist Russia. In 1921, Lenin initiated the 8th of March as the "International Women's Day", in memory of the first demonstration that launched the Russian Revolution, in 1917. That year, Russian women workers decided to go on strike on the last Sunday of February to demand "bread and peace". It was February 23 but in the Julian calendar... The date will become March 8 in our Gregorian calendar. It was not until 1977, in the middle of the Cold War, that the United Nations adopted this day in the calendar after having hesitated between several dates, such as March 19, in memory of the first parades in the United States in 1911.
What is the topic of Women's Rights Day?
A substitute subject is allocated by the UN for each form of "Women's Day". For 2022, it is "Reasonableness today for a practical future"A subject, says the United Nations, "in acknowledgment of the commitment of ladies and young ladies all over the planet who are driving the way in adjusting to and answering environmental change and its relief, to construct a more economical future for all individuals.
Survey
One might have expected a different shift in the numbers on the subject: according to a recent YouGov survey *, only 64% of French people consider women and men to be equal, compared to 69% in 2015. According to the same survey, 88% of French people surveyed believe that women and men should generally receive equal pay... versus 93% in 2015. The study also gives other figures relating to the experience of women in terms of society's perception of their strength and intelligence: when faced with the statement "Someone assumed I was weak because of my gender", 54% of the women surveyed said that this situation has already happened to them, compared to 13% of the men surveyed. The women of the YouGov panel are also 36% to admit that someone has already assumed they were "less intelligent because of their gender", against 16% of men.
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