Madeleine Tribolati

Madeleine Tribolati (1905–1995) was a pioneering French trade unionist. She is remembered for her work during the 1936 negotiation of collective agreements, demanding equal professional rights for men and women and upholding the principle "for equal work, equal pay". After the Second World War, in 1946 she became deputy general secretary of the French Employees Federation and in 1948, vice-president of the French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC).