François Hollande's nomination of two women to France's Panthéon is not enough, feminists said on Friday after the French president announced that the ashes of three resistants and a murdered politician would be transferred to historic resting place in May next year, reports RFI.
As expected, Hollande named two women - Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz - and two men - Pierre Brossolette and Jean Zay - to be honoured as historic figures for the nation.
Tillion, de Gaulle-Anthonioz and Brossolette were members of the resistance to the German occupation of France during World War II and Zay was a Socialist former education minister, arrested by the Vichy collaborationist government and killed by fascist militiamen.
Tillion and de Gaulle-Anthonioz will be only the third and fourth women to be placed in the Panthéon.
"We are quite disappointed because we expected the French president to make the decision to honour more than two women at the Panthéon," Clémence Helfter of the Osez le féminisme group told RFI.
"Today there are only two women for 71 men in the Panthéon, so if we have two more women and two more men, we will still have the same gap in the proportion of men and women."
Read more of this report from RFI.