Artistes, techniciennes et autres professionnelles de la Culture, les femmes occupent une place de plus en plus considérable dans la vie culturelle. Pourtant, le chemin vers l’égalité est encore long.

A l’occasion de la journée internationale des droits des femmes, le ministère de la Culture, qui a fait de cette question un axe fort de son action, dévoile les dernières statistiques de « l’Observatoire de l’égalité » et met en lumière quinze professionnelles emblématiques du monde de la culture.

Portraits de femmes engagées

Elles font la Culture

Anne-Sophie Pic, head cook: «I defend diversity in the kitchen because it is a source of creativity»

Camille Morineau, exhibition curator: «A real commitment for the visibility of women artists»

Uèle Lamore, composer and conductor: «Zero tolerance for discrimination»

Odile Decq, architect: «Since 1980, the situation of women architects does not change much or too slowly»

Julie Chalmette, Director General of Bethesda France: «Greater diversity would allow even better creativity in the video game sector»

Laurence des Cars, President of the Orsay and Orangerie Museums: «We are not so numerous, and it is still necessary and always encourage all those who hesitate to take the step of an application for a position of responsibility»

Colette Kerber, bookseller: «I felt destined to circulate the culture»

Jeanne Vicerial, clothing designer: «In the current fashion system, we have learned more to forget the woman’s body than to really highlight it»

Florence Bourgeois, Director of Paris Photo: «Raising awareness to help women photographers discover their work»

Aloïse Sauvage, singer and actress: "More and more young artists want equality. What’s more normal, after all?"

Debora Waldman, musical director of the Orchestre National Avignon-Provence: "The road is still long, but I see a light at the end of the tunnel!"

Julie Deliquet, director and director of the Théâtre Gérard-Philipe: «The theatrical landscape has changed and women are today an exemplary artistic pool»

Nacera Belaza, choreographer and artistic director: «Beyond the categories women and men, it is essential to defend a higher cause than oneself»

Laurence Bloch, Director of France Inter: «On-air parity has been one of the most significant markers of France Inter»

Kubra Khademi, artist and performer: «Freeing oneself from violence through art»

Equality Observatory 2021: undeniable but insufficient progress

As every year since 2013 on the occasion of International Women’s Rights Day, the publication of the Observatory on Equality between Women and Men in Culture and Communication makes it possible to measure progress towards parity in the cultural and media field.

#Culturecheznous: Women Artists in the Spotlight

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Equality Ministerial Roadmap

The regular publication of the Equality Roadmaps is part of a government policy that established equality between women and men as a major cause of the five-year term.

Equality and diversity on Culture.gouv

The Ministry of Culture is involved in many projects aimed at strengthening equality between women and men and diversity by acting in all its ministerial fields.