Parity Democracy

Jocelyne Praud teaches in the Departments ofPolitical Science at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and VancouverIsland University. Sandrine Dauphin is a researcheraffiliated with the Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques deParis, a research laboratory of the Centre national de la recherchescientifique.

• Introduction1 French Women's Struggle for Political Rights and ParityPart 1: Interviews with Parity Advocates andCritics2 Women's New Cause: Gisèle Halimi3 Equality in Difference: Monique Dental4 Equality in the Political Sphere: Sylvie Ulrich5 Favouring Equality of Opportunity in Politics: MichèleAlliot-Marie6 A Voluntarist Measure to Achieve Equality: RoselyneBachelot-Narquin7 An Extraordinay Measure to Overcome Men's ExtraordinaryResistance: Yvette Roudy8 A Tool for Equality: Geneviève Fraisse9 Affirmative Action Rather than Parity: Christine Delphy10 Institutionalizing the Division of the Sexes: Eleni VarikasPart 2: Founding Documents on Gender Parity inPolitics11 Declaration of Athens, 3 November 199212 Manifesto of the 577 for Parity Democracy, 10 November 199313 Decree No. 95-1114 on the Creation of an Observatoire de laParité entre les Femmes et les Hommes, 18 October 199514 Charter of Rome, 18 May 199615 Manifesto of the Ten for Parity, 6 June 199616 Constitutional Law No. 99-569 on Equality between Women and Men,8 July 199917 Law No. 2000-493 to Favour Women's and Men's EqualAccess to Elected Office, 6 June 200018 Constitutional Law No. 2008-724 on the Modernization of theInstitutions of the Fifth Republic, 23 July 2008ConclusionAppendix 1: Chronology on French Women's Struggle forPolitical RightsAppendix 2: Interview GuideNotesBibliographyIndex