Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1 Defining a feminine sphere of action, 1830-1914
- Part 2 Steps toward equality: women's administrative careers since the First World War
- Introduction: The First World War: a “1789” for women?
- 5 New opportunities for women in central government offices, 1919-1929
- 6 The challenges of the 1930s for women civil servants
- 7 Gendered assignments in the interwar Labor, Health, and Education ministries
- 8 Firings and hirings, collaboration and resistance: women civil servants and the Second World War
- 9 After the pioneers: women administrators since 1945
- Select bibliography
- Index
9 - After the pioneers: women administrators since 1945
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1 Defining a feminine sphere of action, 1830-1914
- Part 2 Steps toward equality: women's administrative careers since the First World War
- Introduction: The First World War: a “1789” for women?
- 5 New opportunities for women in central government offices, 1919-1929
- 6 The challenges of the 1930s for women civil servants
- 7 Gendered assignments in the interwar Labor, Health, and Education ministries
- 8 Firings and hirings, collaboration and resistance: women civil servants and the Second World War
- 9 After the pioneers: women administrators since 1945
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
No distinction for the application of the present statute is made
between the two sexes with the exception of special dispositions for which it makes provision.
Statut Général des Fonctionnaires (1946)In postwar France women received important new guarantees of formal equality with men. Awarded the vote by the Algiers-based Committee of National Liberation in April 1944, women exercised the ballot for the first time in local elections in 1945. The appointed consultative assembly meeting in Paris since November 1944 included eleven women, one of them school inspectress and resister Alice Delaunay, wife of a lycée professor now a prefect. Thirty-three women were among 586 delegates elected to the constitutional assembly in October 1945, and thirty served in its 1946 successor, both constitutional assemblies dominated by three parties boasting a wartime Resistance record: the Communists, Socialists, and Christian democrats in the new Popular Republican Movement (MRP). The electorate's swing to the left rejected both Vichy sympathizers and older republican parties, and many enactments of the tripartite coalitions of 1944–47 benefited women. The preamble to the new Fourth Republic constitution of 1946 pledged that “the law guarantees to the woman, in all domains, rights equal to those of the man.” Judgeships, barred to women before the war, became accessible through the law of 11 April 1946, and women also found a promise of equality in article 7 of the civil service statute of 19 October 1946, albeit with a limitation: “No distinction … is made between the two sexes with the exception of special dispositions” allowed for some administrations.
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- The Rise of Professional Women in FranceGender and Public Administration since 1830, pp. 272 - 302Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000