Big Little Lies and The Scarlet Servant have the two big winners of the Emmy Awards which took place Monday night at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. A record of which must be remembered:

In these two series, which speaks of violence against women, women's roles have finally become stronger. A trend that is confirmed with the release this evening of Engrenages (season 6) on Canal Plus which marks the reunion with the strong and moving personalities of Laure Berthoud (police captain) and Joséphine Karlsson (lawyer).

Real roles for women in the series

More awesome roles for women please!

Nicole Kidman's request - which sounds like a statement - on the stage by Nicole Kidman at the Academy Awards of American Emmy Awards , when she came to get her statuette for her performance in " Big Little Lies " aired on HBO. She embodies a woman who appears to be a happy marriage when she is beaten by her husband.

A female role that is central to the series, such as that of Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) The scarlet maid also awarded the best dramatic actress and who jointly denounce violence against women.

A prize list may be in response to the election Donald Trump with fictions that take over from US feminists to alert citizens about government bills hindering women's rights.

Two women in a world of guys: The female police series?

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According to the latest study by the CSA *, France is not left behind to give roles to women in television series with
"48% of the characters present in the distribution of French female fiction while they are only 38% in the distribution of American fictions. But they are still secondary characters of which "among the 13 French fictions studied, only 3 that give the first role exclusively to women".


Nevertheless, the first female roles in the French series seem to be highly appreciated, as are the actresses Caroline Proust and Audrey Fleurot for the sixth edition of Engrenages . In a very different way each, one perched on Louboutin with almost aggressive femininity, the other trying to blend in an environment of men with high testosterone, participated in the success of the series exported in 70 country.

Invited yesterday morning on the show Instant M (France Inter), Anne Landois art director and head writer of "Gears" from Season 3 reminds us that "the surprise of this series is that it interests the whole world (Broadcast on BBC in French version subtitled!) ".

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"The series allow more and more to show what has always been hidden, a relationship to intimacy in writing especially in the treatment of women ... I wanted to show this reverse of heroines, we are used to France to have heroines all the one or the other, having always difficult to combine private life and professional ".

Gears Season 6, series released on September 18 on Canal Plus

* The place of women in audiovisual works CSA 2013