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Gender equalityIn 2023, the French town of Pantin will be called “Pantine”
This is a sign of the commitment of this city in the Paris suburbs in favor of “equality between women and men”.
“Pantin will be called Pantine for a year”, a sign of the commitment of this city in the Paris suburbs in favor of “equality between women and men”, announced its socialist mayor, in a video broadcast Monday on the town’s Twitter account.
“We will add an E to the name of the city because thus, we want to challenge. We want there to be awareness,” explains Bertrand Kern. Women remain “less paid than men”, “prohibit certain professions” and their place in the public space “is not always well accepted by men”, he also underlined.
The giant letters forming the name “Pantin”, positioned along the Canal de l’Ourcq, between Paris and this popular suburb in the north of the capital, will be decked out with an additional E.
It will therefore be necessary to add an “E” to the giant letters positioned along the Canal de l’Ourcq.
AFP
The mayor intends by this symbolic gender change to denounce the inequalities between men and women, as well as “violence against women”. But in fact, this temporary change of identity remains symbolic. There will be no new town entrance signs or changes to official mails. Such a change would require the establishment of a file with the Ministry of Territorial Communities, then submitted for examination by experts in French toponymy.
(AFP)