Union des femmes pour la défense de Paris et les soins aux blessés
Union des femmes pour la défense de Paris et les soins aux blessés () was a women's group during the 1871 Paris Commune.

About 130 served in the union's central committee. Actual membership is estimated as being a thousand or more.

In April 1871, the group issued a call to Parisian women to form committees in each arrondissement for a collaborative women's movement in Paris's defense. Nathalie Le Mel and Elisabeth Dmitrieff founded the group on April 11.

In early May, the women's union issued a manifesto calling equal treatment of gender, in line with the Commune's annulment of privileges and inequalities. The union also petitioned the Commune's economic director for work for women. He recommended organizing workshops for women to work at home, to be designed by the women's union. The group investigated the needs of unemployed women and created cooperative workshops. It did not designate roles based on trades but centralized the distribution of orders for women to complete and return to the workshop for delivery. This system differed from the piece-work originally proposed by Commune officials, which would have preserved the order of women staying at home and previous style of labor. The union, instead, organized free producer associations to share out communal profits. They supported variety within trade work, elimination of gendered competition, reduced work hours, and equal pay for equal work
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