In its meeting of Thursday, February 28, 2019, the French Academy adopted by a large majority the report on the feminization of the function and job titles presented by a study commission including four of its members. This report sees "no obstacle in principle" to the feminization of job titles, which aims to women’s role in public and professional life. It is a question of helping to rebalance by semantics the position of women in society, which remains undervalued, in a context that traditionally favorite ​​men.