The omission of Fourcade and the pitifully small number of women named as Compagnons reflected the sexism that had prevailed during the war among the Free French and most resistance leaders; in their view, men fought, and women stayed home. “Discrimination, based…on a notion of inequality between the sexes was as solidly rooted in the Resistance as everywhere else in France,” noted the historian Henri Noguères, a résistant himself.
