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Françoise Gaspard

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Françoise Gaspard is a French sociologist and politician who in 1977 became the Socialist mayor of Dreux, a position she held until 1983, and who later served as a deputy for Eure-et-Loir, a member of the European Parliament and a regional councillor for Centre-Val de Loire. A scholar of migration and gender, she has been a leading advocate for equal political representation of women in France and for the rights of homosexuals, and was appointed France's expert to the European Commission's Women in Decision-Making network in 1991.

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1. Françoise Gaspard (Wikipedia)
  • Wikipedia summary, gender reference sentence
    She has been the socialist mayor of her hometown of Dreux, a member of parliament for Eure-et-Loir, a member of the European parliament, and a councillor for the region of Centre-Val de Loire.
  • Lead paragraph, second sentence
    She has been the socialist mayor of her hometown of Dreux, a member of parliament for Eure-et-Loir, a member of the European parliament, and a councillor for the region of Centre-Val de Loire.
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