The masculine domination is the title of a book by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, but it is also a sentence you can currently read in capital letters in the streets of Paris printed on top of a cinema advertisement poster that displays women hands knitting red and pink woollen male genitals.
After the nomination of the commissionners, a satisfaction feeling may have filled European governments and the President of the future European Commission. At least this bad moment is over, there are 1/3 women in the next European Commission, now let’s work….
It would be easy but dangerous to consider this as a satisfying achievement in itself. The equation 1/3 women = equality still seems suspicious. Let’s ask a few simple questions…
European Alternatives has launched the campaign for a “Gender Equal Europe”. Elise Boulding was an early exponent of the idea of a civil society which opens possibilities to people, such as women, children and poor communities, who do not have any voice in the traditional nation-state politics. This article will review her brilliant ideas.
It looks likely that the next European Commission will have even less women than the previous one. European Alternatives launches a campaign for greater gender equality based on more democracy at the European level. Beyond the statistics, let’s create a democratic Europe!
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