DRDFE Hauts-de-France (direction régionale aux droits des femmes et à l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes des Hauts-de-France)

Positioned within the General Secretariat for Regional Affairs (SGAR) of the regional prefecture, it implements the interministerial policy for women’s rights and equality between women and men in the territory.

The DRDFE coordinates the decentralized network of departmental delegates and works with all State services in the region and all institutional, economic and associative partners to develop an integrated and transversal approach to equality between women and men. men.

The DRDFE sets up and financially supports numerous actions throughout the Hauts-de-France territoryThe legislative framework for the actions of the DRDFE

Law No. 2014-873 of August 4, 2014 for substantive equality between women and men

Law n ° 2018-703 of 3 August 2018 strengthening the fight against gender-based and sexual violence

The 1st interministerial plan in favor of professional equality

On November 25, 2017, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron consecrated equality between women and men, the Great National Cause of the Quinquennium.

The missions of the DRDFE

5 priority axes:

1. Promote professional equality by:

– access to or return to employment;

– the mix of training and jobs;

– the implementation of equal pay;

– support for business creation and takeover.

2. Fight against gender-based and sexual violence:

– training in prevention against all forms of violence (sexist, sexual and conjugal);

– raise awareness of gender stereotypes;

– promote education in respect and diversity- fight against attacks on human dignity;

– support women on the way out of prostitution.

3. Allow women access to information on their personal and social rights:

– support the activity of the legal hotlines of the information centers on the rights of women and families (CIDFF).

4. Promote women’s access to responsibilities in political, economic and community life:

– promote equal access to electoral mandates, to leading functions and to decision-making positions.

5. Raise awareness and mobilize all partners to the necessary articulation between private and professional life:

– develop means allowing the articulation of the time of life;

– provide information on the specific problems caused by single parenthood situations.

http://www.nord.gouv.fr/Politiques-publiques/Citoyennete-libertes-publiques-et-egalite-hommes-femmes/Defense-des-droits-des-femmes-et-de-l-egalite-hommes-femmes