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[...] And the Women's Liberation Movement is thus born. In conclusion, if some things have changed today, it is not the case for others that have evolved little or not at all. For example, despite the law on equal pay between men and women, differences still exist. It's also with the same audacity and determination as those of the women of the MLF and not with moderation, that certain problems, such as sexual violence, must be denounced at the current time. [...]
[...] Her fight, like for the majority of feminist movements, is based on the claim of civic equality, the liberation of morals and sexual freedom. Since the Revolution . During the Revolution, women were omnipresent. Some like Olympe de Gouges, with her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Citizen, have not hesitated to express feminist demands loudly in order to improve their status within society. However, women, victims of clichés about them, still find themselves excluded and firmly rooted in their domestic world. [...]
[...] The Women's Liberation Movement (WLM). Associations of women emerged at the end and beginning of the 19th century like the « Suffrage Society (1866) or the « Women's Social and Political Union (1903). They mainly claim equality between the sexes in the various constitutive domains of society (politics, family, work,) without really obtaining a result. By its meaning, equality is rather an obligation than an option. Absolute necessity for social future and for humanity, it is found too often impacted by stereotypes. [...]
[...] From then on, to clearly mark their presence as a citizen woman, subject and not object, the MLF launch for slogan: « Our body belongs to us. Towards a significant acquisition . Therefore, more than in two thousand years of history, the MLF has gained significant acquisitions such as the abolition of patriarchy and matriarchy in 1970, shared parental authority, the law on equal pay between men and women in 1972, and the authorization of abortion in 1975 with the Veil law and inscription in the Constitution today, parity in politics with the promulgation of a law in 2000, or even the formal inscription of equality in the Constitution of the Republic With force, they led a difficult fight with actions such as, for example, in 1974, by calling on women to lead a strike against domestic and sexual tasks. [...]
