Promouvoir « la parité » en entreprise : un enjeu de communication source de dépolitisation de l'égalité
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https://doi.org/10.14428/rcompro.vi12.53163Keywords:
Parity, Corporate Discourse, Institutional Promotion, Equality, Depoliticizing, DiversityAbstract
This paper deals with a hybrid advertising campaign untitled Equals which promotes Accenture’s “parity’s part” of its “diversity” policies. In that institutional and promotional discourse, the objective is about attracting new talented people showing the corporation as a great place to work. Launched both as an external and internal communication campaign, the posters and their wording are the objects we analyze here. We deconstruct the way that pro-parity discourse is reproducing normative gendered binary, showing that declared egalitarian commitment is paradoxically conditioned to a prior equality. In that discourse, the consented efforts for a better equal treatment of women are related to their performance and their demonstration of skills – implicitly leading them to their own responsibilities on inequalities. Our analysis highlights that structural inequalities generating discriminations are not considered nor interrogated as such. Therefore, that campaign which presents the corporation’s implication on more equality is paradoxically euphemistic and depoliticizing.
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