“ It remains an undoubtedly more insidious form of sexism.”. While maintaining discretion since she left Matignon two months ago, Elisabeth Borne returned to speak this Friday 8 March on the occasion of Women’s Rights Day. On the RTL microphone you denounced a “insidious sexism » which persists in a political environment, which she describes as always dominated “male codes”.
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Tirelessly ” compared to male codes »
“We are not experiencing rampant sexism as we have experienced » Edith Cressonfirst woman to become Prime Minister from May 1991 to April 1992. But according to her, sexism in politics today is Moreover ” insidious » : “You are constantly compared to male codes, for example in the way you go around the agricultural fair (…) The reference is men “, has continued.
“Men in politics all have an interest in imposing male codes that eliminate competition “, she added. She noticed it too “In the names that circulated to replace her, there were only male names, not the name of a single woman “.
“As the commentators say : ‘We just had a female Prime Minister for 20 months, that’s it, we’re getting back to normal life, so the next one will be a man’ “.
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