French train and metro drivers, refinery workers, garbage collectors and others held further strikes Wednesday against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64, maintaining pressure on the government as senators debated the reforms. New protest actions focused on women — and the retirement reform’s impact on working mothers — were expected to coincide with International Women’s Day. Feminist activists see the pension reform as unfair to women, especially because they say it would further deepen gender inequalities. For more on the renewed pressure on Macron to scrap his controversial pension reform, FRANCE 24 is joined by Jean-Christophe Gallien, French political analyst.


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