Il ne faudrait pas grand chose pour que cela change.

All these observations have lead to the desire to push forward a neutral word which will cover all offenses carried out against women.

The word “gynophobie” can support our project because it doesn’t endorse all previous battles. Alone, this term can structure the majority and cretae new battle because it has no past and no present so it will be easier to engage in a social battle in the future.

Can a word really change things?

If creating a word might sound superfluous when confronted to certain acts of violence, the idea is to first analyse the history of another word in order to understand what language is capable of accomplishing.

The discriminating racist politic of South Africa between 1948 and 1991 wash partially abolished because of the existence of one word « apartheid »that qualified degrading treatments founded on the color of the skin and a supposedly racial inferiority. People and countries came together ensuring South Africa was excluded from the international community and, little by little,imposed an embargo regardless of the realpolitik’s interest.

Today, we must do the same for the violences half of humanity suffers from. The cause of women lacks a strong enough word capable of creating a similar impact to the word apartheid and to make things change.

To ensure the emergence of the word gynophobie

not only in France but worldwide, in common parlance and in dictionnaries.

Awareness campaign for the general public

The internet and social media have become the main vehicle of communicating and expresssing moral causes.

All forms of art are a major driver in denouncing acts of gynophobia and raising collective awareness

In order to deploy different means of expression and make them reachable to as many people as possible, the association develops and hosts:

Form an observatory

of gynophobia whose mission will be to assemble everything we know about gynophobic phenomenons and provide an index to measure gynophobic acts in a professional environment and the rest of the world.

The observatory will have to main missions:

To gather all the information and surveys regarding violence against women

(figures, type of assaults, gepographic ares, jurisprudence etc.) so as to quantify this violence and show the reality of theses offenses. Art will also be another way to communicate this information through images.

Bring forward unpublished documents

on acts of gynophobia which will complement aquired knowledge by desseminating information in several ways: articles, gynophobia index, films, audiovisual, graphic and literary productions, etc.

Support commitee

Valérie Bernis (Engie)

Sophie Seydoux (Fondation Pathé)

Laetitia Belmadani (Onu Femmes)

Isabelle Quentin-Heuzé (Fondation EDF)

Zainab Salbi (Fondatrice de women for women)

Miranda Dunbar-Johnson (Human Rights Watch)

Maître Isabelle Steyer Braniste

Special thanks to

Un grand merci à toutes les personnes et les entreprises qui nous soutiennent depuis le début:

Clara Gaymard, Eulalie Gaymard, Caroline de Maigret, Manuel Carcassonne, Paul Mouret, Hélène Vaultier, Johanna de Clisson, Gilles Aujard, Flore Michiels, Valerie Duchemin, Jerome Auriac, Dorothée Duron Rivron, Guillaume Prigent, Françoise-Marie Santucci

Engie: Elisabeth Richard.

Fondation Kering: Marie-Claire Daveu, Céline Bonnaire, Cyril Cabellos

Fondation Pathé: Sophie Seydoux

Fondation EDF : Isabelle Quentin-Heuze

Sodexo: Michel Landel

Juliette Swildens

Marie Gas

Charlotte Gaignault

Château Rasque: Sophie Biancone

Fondation EDF : Nathalie Bazoche