Historical Figures

Why does Olympe de Gouges use the label citizeness?

Olympe de Gouges used the label "citizeness" to assert the equal rights of women and their equal standing as active citizens entitled to all the same social, political, civil, as well as personal, familial, and occupational rights of the male citizenship as outlined in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen that had excluded women.