Marlène Schiappa announced that this weekend she commissioned the MP La Républic en Marche (LREM) of Hauts-de-Seine Céline Calvez with a mission on "the place of women in the media in times of crisis". A decision following the outcry on the front page of the Parisian on Sunday highlighting four male experts - and no expert.
Céline Calvez will be responsible for "analyzing the place of women experts in the media at large in this period of confinement and crisis, the place of women journalists, and formulating proposals to ensure their representativeness", says find out in a press release the Secretary of State for Equality between women and men.
Place of women in the media in times of crisis: I entrust the Member with a mission @celinecalvez # Covid_19 # media #women # parity pic.twitter.com/lyqL28jbB1
- 🇫🇷 MarleneSchiappa (@MarleneSchiappa) April 6, 2020In a period of crisis linked to the Covid-19 coronavirus, "experts must also be experts, and women cannot be excluded from public reflection or public representations," said Marlène Schiappa in her mission letter to the parliamentarian.
"A regrettable step back"
The Parisian apologized on Sunday for its front page dedicated to personalities who "tell the world about" the health crisis. This one exclusively put forward men, which earned him numerous accusations of sexism.
A "world after" without women, really? pic.twitter.com/dKUe3Oujoh
- Femmes du Parisien (@FemmesParisien) April 5, 2020Among other reactions, the collective of women journalists from Parisien considered that this misstep was "a real slap" and "an unfortunate step backwards" for all those who fight for parity and better visibility of women experts in the media. .
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