Jeannette Laot
Jeannette Laot | |
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 Jeannette Laot in 2014 | |
| Born | Jeanne Marie Laot 15 January 1925 |
| Died | 14 May 2025 (aged 100) Strasbourg, France |
| Occupation | Trade unionist • Feminist |
Jeannette Laot (15 January 1925 – 14 May 2025) was a French trade unionist and feminist.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Laot was born in Landerneau on 15 January 1925. She attended a Catholic school and obtained her school certificate in 1938.[3] After initially joining Force Ouvrière (FO), but disappointed, she founded a trade union section of the French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC) in 1948 with the help of CFTC officials she had met at the Catholic Workers' Action.[4]
In 1954, Laot moved to Paris and took on national responsibilities at the Federation of the Société d'exploitation industrielle des tabacs et des allumettes (SEITA). Active within the CFTC minority, it participated in the secularization of the union (the CFTC to the CFDT). In 1970, she joined the executive committee of the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT) in the wake of Edmond Maire.[5] She was in charge of the living environment and then of industrial action while being responsible for the confederal women's commission. She also served as a special adviser to François Mitterrand.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Jeannette Laot a eu 100 ans". archives.memoires.cfdt.fr (in French). Retrieved 16 May 2025.
- ^ Mazur, Amy G. (23 November 2010). Gender Bias and the State: Symbolic Reform at Work in Fifth Republic France. University of Pittsburgh Pre. ISBN 978-0-8229-7484-0.
- ^ Bard, Christine; Le Brouster, Pascale; Centre d'histoire de Sciences po; Archives du féminisme; Centre de recherches historiques de l'Ouest (2012). "Une syndicaliste-féministe : le parcours de Jeannette Laot à la CFDT (1961-1981)". Les féministes de la deuxième vague. Archives du féminisme (in French). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes. p. 109-119. ISBN 978-2-7535-1808-7.
- ^ Michelle Kespi-Backmann, « Les femmes ont toujours les prolétaires de l’homme… même dans les syndicats. Entretien avec Jeannette Laot, L’Unité, 11 mars 1977.
- ^ "LAOT Jeannette [LAOT Jeanne-Marie, dite] - Maitron". maitron.univ-paris1.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
- ^ "Jeannette Laot, figure historique de la CFDT, est morte" (in French). 15 May 2025. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
- ^ Threlfall, Monica (17 May 1996). Mapping the Women's Movement: Feminist Politics and Social Transformation in the North. Verso. ISBN 978-1-85984-120-4.
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