PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is facing criticism from mothers with big families both at home and abroad for recent comments he made about women and fertility in Africa.
Hundreds of French and American women took offense at a September speech Macron made at the Gates Foundation's Goalkeepers Summit, when he said a critical issue for African demography is that women and girls don't have the choice to have children or not because they are uneducated. He said: "I always say: 'Please present me the lady who decided, being perfectly educated, to have seven, eight, nine children."
Even though Macron was specifically referring to African women in his speech, many Western women are using the hashtag #postcardsforMacron on social media to criticize him and share photos of their large families.
