#ReParecommmeuneFemme: In Paris, a new workshop to encourage women to tinker
The figures do not lie. According to a 2023 Ifop surveyDIY remains a gendered activity and mainly reserved for men. Whether it is to try to repair an electronic apparatus or an appliance, in heterosexual households, it is still the men of the couple who take care of it in the majority (at 44 % and 50 % respectively).
Yet things change. In 2025, Spareka noted, for example, that the female gender is at the origin of 21 % of the meetings made on the platform, a figure “in great increase“According to the specialist in spare parts. To encourage women to get started, the brand therefore organizes the second edition of its 100 % female repair workshop, as part of its #rePareComme aMeFemme campaign.
A workshop to change mentalities
The event that will take place on Saturday April 15 at the Climate Academy in Paris will therefore be led by professional reparators who will give advice and guide all those who want to overcome their timidity of the screwdriver. The brand hopes to reconnect with the success of the 2024 workshop which saw around fifty participants register and even played extensions to help all those who wanted to train in the DIY of the daily life.
“”The 1:45 am workshop finally lasted more than 2:30, as the participants had questions and felt the need to be reassured about their practices and the repairs they were going to have“Explains Cindy Augusto, communication manager at Spareka. More generally, Spareka also hopes to change the mentality in the long term to continue on the momentum of 2024 which allowed the company to triple its number of customers.
Scheduled in non-mixed, the workshop wants to allow participants of “meet between women, to help each other and to help break stereotypes in a sector still too often perceived as male“The opportunity also to dare to speak to ask all the questions that we would not dare to ask otherwise.
If you have a strawberry bread grid, an alarm clock that no longer makes its office or a washing machine that spits you on the foam on the tiles, you can therefore register to learn the basics of repair and learn more about the resources made available by the State to encourage practice. By any chance, The repair bonus Or the repairability index For example.
Reservations are open On the website of the climate academy With a session at 10:15 a.m. and another at 2:30 p.m. Small novelty this year, a professional repairer will also be available in Visio for those who are not from the Paris region.
