Decryption
France: what place for women in politics?
Audio 7:30 p.m.
Newly appointed French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne gestures as she attends a handover ceremony in the courtyard of the Hotel Matignon in Paris, France, May 16, 2022. REUTERS - CHRISTIAN HARTMANN
By: Anne Corpet Follow
1 min
In France, Elisabeth Borne must form her government.
This is only the second time that a woman has entered Matignon.
The first was Edith Cresson, more than thirty years ago.
She had, at the time, suffered the worst bullshit from a world of men accustomed to each other.
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Three decades later, is the French political class still sexist?
Will the new head of government escape macho comments?
Why does the appointment of a woman to this position give rise to exclamations in France while in other European countries, this kind of fact is not even mentioned?
Decryption with
:
- Réjane Sénac
, political scientist,
CNRS
research director at the Center for Political Research at Sciences Po where she teaches;
author of
Radicals and fluids.
Contemporary mobilizations
(Presses de Sciences Po)
- Merabha Benchikh
, Doctor of Sociology, associate professor-researcher at the
University of Strasbourg,
author of
Women politicians: "the third sex"?"
(L'Harmattan)
and she wrote the chapter "the emergence of new women politicians internationally" in
Genre(s)
under the direction of Claude Mesmin (editions les routes de la Soie).
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