ARTíCULOS ESTUDIANTES - 1. THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN

According to Simone de Beauvoir in Le deuxième Sexe, “Pour être un individu complet, l'égale de l'homme, il faut que la femme ait accès au monde masculin comme le male au monde féminin, qu'elle ait accès à l'autre” (1). To become a complete individual, women need to have access to the masculine world, but men also need to have access to the feminine one. And to understand themselves, or to discover the sphere of the other, men and women need to communicate, to let them enter their respective universes, to share what they need, what they want, what they think, and how they perceive the world. If communication does not exist, this verbal and non-verbal exchange would not allow people to get to know each other, and men and women would be even more deeply locked up in their own gender. As a result, communication might be the clue of the relationship between men and women, and could be the main point that allows them to move towards a better gender equality. That is why this study will tend towards determining the importance of communication between men and women and the differences in the way they use and consider communication, mainly in France and between women and men of middle-class from thirty-five to fifty-five years old. Does communication contributes to a better harmony between the genders, or, on the contrary, does it make their differences deeper?