from this date, you work “for free”

An increasingly early date each year. On its Twitter account, the feminist newsletter Les Glorieuses indicates that, “this year it is on November 3 at 9:22 am that French women start working for free “. Thus, the collective calls on Internet users to sign a petition, baptized # 3Novembre9h22, to move the lines. A “petition composed of three public policy proposals, is intended for presidential candidates”, as can be read on the request page.

Thus, once again, Les Glorieuses calls for the responsibility of political leaders to bridge the gap between men and women. It is then proposed to the government to “revalue the wages of jobs where women are the most numerous “ like midwives, who are also on strike to demand an increase in their wages.

From this moment, women exercise a “free” professional activity.

Since 2015, the day and time from which women work for free have been calculated in order to demonstrate the pay gap that persists between men and women. In 2020, the date from which women exercised a professional activity “free“was on November 4 at 4:16 pm. Thus, the gap between women and men widened a little more then. We would note a difference of 16.5% this year against 15.5% last year.”Wage inequality is widening “, proclaimed, in a press release, the economist and founder of Glorieuses Rebecca Amsellem. For her, “Concrete measures must be put in place as of today in order to avoid waiting until 2234 to see the birth of equal pay”.