The feminist plea of ​​Christine Lagarde (ECB): “I asked my children that their wives not iron their shirts”

Christine Lagarde (67), President of the European Central Bank (ECB), has been interviewed this Thursday by Susanna Griso on Antena 3. In addition to economic issues such as disinflation, the businesswoman has also talked about other personal issues, such as the feminist values ​​that she has transmitted to her children.

In the first place, you spoke of how necessary conciliation measures are. Also of the job opportunities that women have compared to men, which continue to be unequal.

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“I have lived in a world of men, there is nothing wrong with that, but women have to be able to access the same as men. In addition to education, you have to opt for public infrastructures that can be available such as nurseries and places to leave children when parents have to go to work”, he told Susanna Griso.

In this sense, he has also added about his children: “My children are already over 35 years old, with their lives made, and I am proud that they know how to iron their shirts. I decided that my children should not ask their wives to do that with them. If we have all this available, women will be able to prosper tremendously.”

The businesswoman, considered one of the 100 most influential women in the world according to the list of Forbes in 2021, she is the mother of Pierre-Henri (37) y Thomas (35), both the result of her marriage to Wilfried Lagardewith whom she was married between 1982 and 1992. In the Atresmedia program they have shown her family images and she has been moved, wrapped in tears, live.

“It’s always exciting to see family members. My father died when I was 16 years old,” explained the Frenchwoman. She has also been moved when she received the call from her brother, Luc Lalouetteand listening to the words of her children, who consider her a “close” and “caring” woman who always has a “smile” as her flag.