The author and former journalist Colombe Schneck presents Tuesday in the program "It makes good" her new book, "Deux petits bourgeoises".

She explains to the microphone of Anne Roumanoff and her band how she realized over the years that sexism, which she thought she had escaped, had slowed down her development.

INTERVIEW

Writer Colombe Schneck publishes the novel 

Deux petits bourgeoises

, a story of friendship inspired by her childhood.

Guest Tuesday of the show Anne Roumanoff

It

feels 

good

, the former journalist tells how she believed for a long time that her bourgeois origins would warn her of sexism, and how the world of work made her realize that it was not the case.

“The little girls that we were were brought up to equal boys our age,” she recalls.

“It was very important that we get a good education. We had to nourish ourselves intellectually. We did dance, Chinese, pony, tennis, whatever was possible. We had to learn all the time. there wasn't a free moment. "

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A progressive awareness

This egalitarian education suggests Colombe Schneck that sexism is an outdated affair.

"I had the impression that I was the equal of boys my age, that I was going to do the same studies, that I was going to make a career and that I was going to earn money and be free", explains the author.

"And then I find myself married. I lower my head and realize that as a woman there are a number of rules imposed on me."

It was in her professional life that the journalist then realized the difference in treatment.

"In my professional life, while I have had a good education, I see that men of my age earn much better their lives," she observes.

"They were encouraged to lead, to think."

"There was no question of me leading a team or giving my opinion"

“I'm not paying you to think,” a boss at the time told him.

"I worked in a TV show where the girls made inquiries, brought back facts. And the boys thought and edited," she annoys.

"I presented another show with a reporter who was making three times my salary."

Arriving in her forties, Colombe Schneck realizes that her professional career is conditioned by her gender.

"I worked in a newsroom where, at 40, boys my age were editor or columnist and I was a presenter. There was no way I was leading a team or giving my opinion. ", she distinguishes.

"I do triple days"

And this difference in treatment continued after his day's work.

“At home, I cleaned, I took care of the house, I made sure the fridge was full,” she lists.

"I did everything a woman does besides my job, I had triple days."

The reality therefore contradicts the promises of his education.

"I thought that because I was a bourgeois, I was going to escape my gender, the fact of being a woman," she recalls.

"And no, that didn't change a thing. I was drained by my gender."

It is by changing her life, and in particular by becoming a writer, that Colombe Schnek manages to break the glass ceiling.

"I am no longer wrung out today, I am even quite free", she rejoices today.