Read moreThe green town hall is carrying out numerous actions to "promote the values ​​of gender equality" and has just adopted a charter of 23 commitments in the artistic and cultural domain. Le Figaro Bordeaux It is not a day but a week of March 8, dedicated to women's rights in Bordeaux. "Equality is all year round," announces Pascale Bousquet-Pitt, elected member of the majority, thus taking up the slogan displayed in the streets of the city. This Monday, at the Jacques Thibaud conservatory, the socialist participated in the presentation of the “gender equality charter for cultural establishments in the city of Bordeaux”. A new series of measures carried out by the green town hall, which is only the visible part of its action. The issue of gender equality is in fact placed "at the heart of the municipality's mandate project", "with the aim of instilling it in all public policies". This new 23-point charter now involves the city's five museums, the conservatory and the libraries. It is based on four objectives: to promote the values ​​of gender equality, to guarantee equal treatment and equal access to programming, education and artistic and cultural practices, to "restore a mixed history and fight against gender stereotypes", and finally to adapt the tools and working methods used by the town hall. Concretely, it is a question of demonstrating, through openings, concerts and exhibitions, that "creative genius has no gender", explains Claudine Bichet, Pierre Hurmic's first assistant. In addition to exhibitions on women, such as the one by SOS Méditerranée inaugurated in February by the mayor of Bordeaux, the city has been celebrating “matrimony” since 2021. A term attached to the heritage days which take place in September, to designate “the often forgotten memory of creators and the transmission of their works”. The city of Bordeaux wants to go further by funding projects in favor of men and women in all areas of municipal action in equal parts. A desire which is taking shape through an experiment: the “gender-sensitive budget” (GSB), an approach also implemented in Nantes. The objective: "that one euro of public money spent contributes equally to women and men", explains Claudine Bichet, to avoid creating or worsening inequalities. A goal, however, difficult to evaluate. Also readBordeaux: the names of 147 victims of femicides stuck on the monument to the Girondins In public spaces, the city of Bordeaux wants to make women visible through its "viography" commission, which names and "denames" certain streets each year. Recalling that only 6% of streets in France have a woman's name (and 10% in Bordeaux), Dimitri Boutleux points out that in 2021, 16 streets, squares and places were named after women, and that in 2022, 42 women's names (and two men's names) were chosen for streets. SEE ALSO – Elisabeth Lévy: “What bothers me about neo-feminism is the confusionism” Within the commitments of this charter for equality, the city of Bordeaux is focusing on education, with “inclusive and stereotype-free internal and external communication”, but also by restoring “the historical role of gender inequalities in the creation of societal imbalances, essentialist representations and stereotypes and questioning the vocabulary used”. The municipality also plans to "produce specialized educational content for nursery and primary school classes." Also readIn Bordeaux, a makeup workshop for children led by a drag queen sparks new controversy Finally, because the issue of equality necessarily includes that of violence against women, the “Ask Angela” program has been deployed in Bordeaux since 2021 and now concerns more than 80 establishments. It allows someone who feels unsafe to go to a shop or an emergency call point at a tram station to find shelter, simply by asking them "where is Angela". "Nearly 200 people have been trained to help victims or witnesses of harassment," the city said. So many tools to implement equality between men and women, but without seeking to "force the march", tempers Dimitri Boutleux, who wants to "trace the path naturally". Pascale Bousquet-Pitt explains that the goal of the city of Bordeaux "is not to replace patriarchy with matriarchy", but rather to promote real equality of treatment between the sexes.

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