Even Samantha Power, one of the world’s most powerful women, deals with sexism at work
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Gérard Araud, the current French Ambassador to the US and at the time French ambassador to the UN, sent Power a text one day while they were on the Security Council that read, “On behalf of the French delegation, I want to tell you, you are very beautiful.” The source for this story is Araud himself.
That’s right: Araud, in his capacity as diplomatic representative of France, not only sent an obnoxious text to the US Ambassador to the United Nations, while they were in the Security Council, but later bragged about it to the New Yorker, saying that “As a Frenchman, I’m not condemned to be politically correct.”
