Feminism in the Real World!

My blog three post will be in response to the starter question posted- Have you seen any feminist concepts or issues at play in the “real world” recently? What is the significance of this? Recently, I was reading the New York Times.. Yes I know what your thinking- hard to believe! Ha And I came across this article that had the title “Where having it all doesn’t mean having equality”. I quickly skimmed through the title and was shocked to what I had read! French women seem to have it all, but in reality they don’t. France ranks 46^th in the 2010 gender equality report. “Eighty-two percent of French women aged 25-49 work, many of them full-time, but 82 percent of parliamentary seats are occupied by men. French women earn 26 percent less than men but spend twice as much time on domestic tasks,” stated Katrin Benholds author of the posted in the New York Times. I was outraged after reading this- having just spent several days in France this past summer I would have paid more attention to the details of femininity. It surprises me that France ranked 46^th! I would love to read some standpoint theory from someone who lives in France and what they think/cope with this idea. I couldn’t help but think back to the works from Susan Hartmann, and her thoughts on Feminism. Hartmann reintroduced the idea of “womanism” and that was coined by Alice Walker and I believe that it needs to be reintroduced to France! The pictures shown are from the article as well, I thought it was necessary to show these in the post because this is a picture of a French women dropping off her kids on her way to work- in Stilettos!

Here is a link to the New Paper Article if you are interested!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/world/europe/12iht-fffrance.html?_r=1&scp=7&sq=Feminism%20Still%20In%20france&st=cse