Flowers, parades, and protests

The debate around parity, positive discrimination, and women's participation largely motivated the various initiatives undertaken by official and social actors in Essaouira on the occasion of International Women's Day. Admittedly, women agreed on the particularity of the event, but they decided to celebrate it in different ways. Some celebrated it with flowers, parades, and receptions, while others, suffering from exclusion and precariousness, chose to raise their voices and celebrate it by protesting and demanding human and social parity above all else. The delegations of the Ministry of National Education, National Mutual Aid, schools, as well as several components of civil society, implemented varied programmes (parades, tributes, poetic and artistic evenings, conferences, receptions) in commemoration of this day, reserving a most deserved tribute to the female presence in a pluralis…