A Tribute To French Working Women
Sunday, August 10th, 2008Some popular music for the weekend: a French feminist song!
Not only French, since ‘Femmouzes T’ was formed in Toulouse (in the south-west of France) by two women musicians, Rita Macedo from Brazil and Françoise Chapuis from France. There’s one reference here, but there’s a number of them on Google, unfortunately I haven’t found any in English.
From a linguistic point of view, the song is interesting for all those who are struggling with the feminine forms of many job names.
But of course, there’s MORE to it.
The whole song refers to the endless struggle of working women for equality, parity, equal pay for equal work.
“On parle d’égalité, on parle de parité,
Mais les femmes qui travaillent n’ont pas gagné la bataille,
On parle d’égalité, on parle de parité,
Mais les femmes qui travaillent n’ont pas fini de batailler.”
Enjoy! 
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