“Emmanuel Macron is trying to speak to the far-right electorate,” said the spokesperson for Dare to Feminism!

During his press conference on Tuesday, the President of the Republic spoke of a new “birth leave” and a “major plan to combat” infertility.

After the announcement, Tuesday January 16, by the President of the Republic of birth leave to replace the current parental leave as well as a plan against infertility with the objective of “demographic rearmament” of the country, the spokesperson for Dare to Feminism!, Violaine de Filippis-Abate, believes that Emmanuel Macron, “once again, comes to try to speak to the far-right electorate” with this theme and “propose a small bandage on a big problem” inequalities between men and women regarding parenthood.

“It’s a theme that is fundamentally a theme of the extreme right at the base”explains the activist, “so, we see that once again, after immigration, after his comments on Gérard Depardieu, he comes to try to speak to the far-right electorate who are afraid of the so-called ‘great replacement’, by talking about ‘ demographic rearmament’ with this almost military vocabulary.”

According to Violaine de Filippis-Abate, by wanting to transform parental leave into birth leave, shorter but better paid, the Head of State is showing that he is “bad questions”Thatr “if French men and women are having fewer children, it is perhaps also because of the gloomy political climate, inflation, purchasing power policies. And we would have liked that. hear about it.”

Rather change paternity leave

“He mentioned that it was for both parents and therefore it would be their choice. But we can expect that it will be the mother who takes it”, she deplores, pleading for an evolution of paternity leave with an extension of the compulsory days. Furthermore, improving parental leave pay will perhaps encourage “the more fathers take it, nevertheless the gender pay gap is still 22% according to INSEE. And that is linked to the blocking of career development. So in fact, there , the device does not answer these structural questions. Once again, it’s a bit like putting a band-aid or offering a small band-aid on a big problem.”