In all cases it’s our own fault, women’s fault. And I am not even mentioning the Polish member of the European Parliament who recently claimed that women are less paid because they are less intelligent than men. It means that even when women are perfect, they are being blamed for not taking more initiative. When we did, last November, the first reactions were shocking: women are paid less because they choose to stay a few years at home to take care of the children, or women are paid less than men because they tend to choose jobs that are less paid than men’s and the last one – and this one is my favorite – you can blame the good pupil syndrome which is the syndrome that describes women who follow the rules too much. For example, we launched in France with Les Glorieuses the movement of #7Novembre16h34 to protest for the equal pay gap. We should all be feminists because even when we claim equality we blame women. And as Naomi Wolf put it: « Equality makes the world better for men as well as for women ». We should all be feminists because feminism is a fight claiming equality between men and women.
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