Overview
- Grassroots collectives, unions and civic groups staged March 8 events across French towns such as Auch, Cahors, Carcassonne, Arles, Venelles and La Ciotat featuring marches, speeches, music and street performances.
- Several thousand people marched in Buenos Aires on March 9 to denounce feminicides, gender violence and President Javier Milei’s austerity program, including the earlier scrapping of the Women’s Ministry.
- French organizers highlighted structural inequities including pay gaps, precarious jobs and lower pensions for women, with local speakers citing data on poverty among single-parent households and food bank usage.
- Recent figures underpinned the protests: France’s national observatory reports that 99% of those convicted for sexual violence are men, while Argentina recorded 247 feminicides in 2025 and a 26% average gender pay gap, according to official bodies.
- Participants warned about a rise in masculinist discourse documented by France’s Haut Conseil à l’égalité, as intergenerational testimonies linked past struggles for contraception and dignity to current demands for protection and equality.