INVESTITURE ISSUES (PARITY, ETC)

This article offers a critical survey of the ''parity movement'''s pol itics and moreover of the line of arguments developed by some of its s upporters. The Author draws the attention to the parity activists' abs ence of programme and lack of solidarity with women, both in Britain a nd in France, and also to the peculiar idea they have in France to cam paign for making the equal number of women and men enforceable by law. We won't achieve anything this way, the A. claims and she suggests ot her strategies, some of them inspired by the American feminist movemen ts.