Societal activism: choice or duty of companies?  

First uttered in the National Assembly in February 2021, the term "woke" from which the whole of "Woke culture" is derived has become embedded in debates on French education, undoubtedly amplified by the virulent positions of the Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports, Jean-Michel Blanquer, to the point of securing its place among the words that marked the year 2021. However, wokeness is not new: its origins are said to be in the immediate post-Civil War period in the United States in the 19th century, and describes a state of "awakening" (from the verb wake, to wake up, in English) against the racial injustice that was tearing the country apart. 👊 And since the birth of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) political movement across the Atlantic in 2013, the term "woke" has experienced a resurgence of interest worldwide through social networks. Since 2013, the term "woke" has been used more widely in the French political debate by some to denounce inequalities of gender, ethnic origin or...