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In the Egalité des Genres module, students examine how language, literature, and media construct — and contest — gender inequality, moving from Olympe de Gouges' Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne and Simone de Beauvoir's «On ne naît pas femme, on le devient» through a video on contemporary feminist collages (France Culture, «À l'origine des collages féministes»), analyze an infographic on masculinism centered on multimodal meaning-making, and carry out a research project on francophone feminist activists.
The big ideas that will provide the practical lenses for students' inquiry are:
Social construction of gender
Power and access
Agency and voice
The essential questions that students will explore in this module are:
How do cultural norms and traditions shape what is considered "normal" for different genders — and whose norms count?
What does it mean to have agency over your own body and life, and why is this unequally distributed?
What responsibilities do individuals, institutions, and governments share in advancing gender equality in their community and country?
Students should be able to develop the following enduring understandings:
Gender inequality is not natural or inevitable – it is produced and reproduced through laws, institutions, media, and social norms
Violence against women and girls — including domestic violence, harassment, and child marriage — is a global crisis with deep structural roots.
Lasting gender equality requires the active participation of men and boys as allies and change-makers, not just beneficiaries.
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