The annual Women's Rights Day has arrived.

This raises the question: do we really need a special day dedicated to us?
Why, in a society where women are increasingly fighting for gender equality, do we need a special day for ourselves?

Well, we pretty much agree with that. Celebrating women (like men) should be an everyday celebration, or at least the norm!

Nevertheless, today, on this National Women's Day, it is still an opportunity to reflect on and review all the progress women have made in defending their rights over the years. A real fierce struggle, which is paying off more and more! #GirlPower

Source: Jimbdo

Women's Day is not an anti-men day, no, but a day where we can celebrate the rights we have gained in recent years, because our right to vote is still recent and equal pay is still not a reality!
Yes, because it is still important to realize that in 1941 (78 years ago), abortion was still considered a crime, punishable by death! And rape had to wait until 1980 (only 39 years ago!) to be classified as a crime.

Difficult dates to remember, as well as victorious dates that make us increasingly free and autonomous women.

A brief overview of the major dates (among many others) that have brought us to where we are today:

1907: Married women can receive their salaries.
1944: Women's right to vote.
1965: Women can practice a profession and open a bank account without the husband's authorization.
1967: Authorization of contraception
1975: The Veil Law authorizes voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) under certain conditions.
1992: The law penalizes domestic violence and sexual harassment in the workplace.
2001: Children's surname can be that of the father, that of the mother, or both combined.
2004: Medical abortion, authorized by law.

Anecdote of April 5, 1971: "The Manifesto of the 343 Sluts"
Thus named by the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, and taken up by the signatories themselves, Le Nouvel Observateur published a manifesto signed by 343 famous women who declared having had an abortion (Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, Catherine Deneuve, Marie-France Pisier, Françoise Sagan...).
This text had the effect of a bomb in French society.
Source: www.scienceshumaines.com

As female entrepreneurs, this day is even more important because it reminds us how important uniqueness, boldness, and ambition are in the world of work.  

Because where there is still a heavy fight, it is in the male/female ratio in the professional world… Furthermore, we wrote an article on female entrepreneurship.  

In France, women represent:

• 87% of nurses
• 65% of teachers

Did you say "stereotype"?

Yes, because, in parallel, women also represent and only :

• 23% of writers,
• 33% of associations,
• 16% of surgeons
• 15% of business owners*
• 8% of business creators 

We say STOP!

As two female entrepreneurs, from the day we entered the 8% of women business creators, our adventure in the cosmetics market has also consisted of an overflowing desire to break codes and overturn clichés.

This day is dear to us, because today we see a future for all women, we want to break stereotypes, surprise, please, and above all do what we like.

Behind our project, there is obviously a taste for entrepreneurship and healthy cosmetics, but also the drive to show as many people as possible that you can BOTH be a woman AND decide to take the lead.

From our ambition emanates the desire to create products for all of you, products good for everyone's use, we rack our brains to go ever further in our ideas, and we are convinced that women entrepreneurs have a lot to teach us!

Being a woman in today's world does not mean the same thing everywhere, and we are fully aware of this. There is still a long way to go, and we want to be protagonists by encouraging women to take the plunge.

So today it is important for us to celebrate women and their rights, but also those men who oppose injustices done to women, those who advocate for us every day, those who try to sympathize and share our daily battles and also who share our lives!