Fighting sexism in the media
Résumé
The issue of gender equality in France is shaped by the ideal of “French Universalism” which states as the root of equality among citizens that all men are born naturally equal. This principle of equality is encapsulated in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens (1789), especially its first article stipulating that “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights’. But this ideal has remained unachieved since the French Revolution as it forgot women, hence laying the grounds for an “exclusive” democracy. Consequently, women did not gain their full citizenship until they were given the right to vote as late as 1944.
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