Castaner announces a law against economic violence against women

The boss of the LREM group is preparing to present a text to continue the "fight for gender equality" and thus ensure that every woman receives her salary in her account.

Gender equality was presented as "the great cause of the five-year term ". After the Schiappa law of 2018 which strengthens the fight against sexual and gender-based violence, Christophe Castaner is preparing to present a second text to the National Assembly against economic violence against women. "Too many women are still victims of it. When your spouse misappropriates your income or your bank card, what is your autonomy?", asks the boss of the LREM group during an interview with Parisian.

Christophe Castaner joins forces with the president of the Palais-Bourbon women's rights delegation, Marie-Pierre Rixain, to present a text for "continue our fight for gender equality " which will concern economic violence against women, which frequently leads to domestic violence.

This bill will aim to prohibit any employer from paying the salary of one person to the account of another as is currently permitted. "We will therefore vote on the obligation to pay wages into a bank account in the name of the employee or into a joint account", said the former interior minister.

Christophe Castaner plans to study this text for the week of March 8, a very symbolic date since it is the international day of women's rights.

If we talk less than domestic or gender-based violence, economic violence against women is numerous, whether it is forbidding one's partner to work, confiscating her means of payment or even managing the family assets without consulting her.

According to the Italian association Global Thinking Foundation, economic violence is "acts of controlling and monitoring a woman's behavior in terms of the use and distribution of money, with the perennial threat of depriving economic resources, through debtor exposure or by preventing her from having work and personal financial income and to use one's own resources according to one's will. "

In 2019, MEP Chrysoula Zacharopoulou revealed that "55% of women victims of economic violence have a salary". The report by Grevio, the European body responsible for monitoring compliance with the Istanbul Convention, has already pointed the finger at France on this subject because, for the moment, the law does not provide for any sanctions against such violence. However, it could soon be done.

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