Marguerite Durand: the force of France’s first feminist journalist The 19th-century former actress founded a daily newspaper written and produced entirely by women
Support for woman prosecuted for walking topless in street in France She said she was only doing what ‘half of men do’ and that she was overheating. A woman previously prosecuted for doing the same said the current law is unfair
French minister defends appearance on Playboy magazine’s front cover "In France, women are free," said French minister Marlène Schiappa, defending her decision to give an interview to Playboy France magazine Bra-less movement takes hold among liberated under-25s in France Videos and images: People in France march in Iran solidarity Stop making us wear bikinis, asks French women’s beach handball team
France’s ‘inclusive writing’: Have you spotted examples like ami.e.s? Electricity supplier Bulb – and Périgueux council – are fans of the new writing style but others disagree
Paternity leave in France is set to double News that paternity leave in France is to double to 28 days – and will, in part, be obligatory – has delighted parents’ groups but there are still inequalities to iron out, says one association.
Breakthrough Prize awarded to French neurobiologist Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have recognised a French scientist for discovering neuron circuits that govern parental instinct in the brains of male and female mice.
France Paternity leave: new fathers to get double time A proposal to double paternity leave from 14 days to a month is to be debated this autumn.
What to expect of France's live entertainment post-Covid-19 Like the rest of us, live entertainers in France face a new, post-Covid, normal. Connexion asks two comics what we can expect in future.
Remarkable life and death of France’s ‘first feminist’ Olympe de Gouges regularly courted controversy with her politically aware writing – and she eventually went to the guillotine for calling for the re-establishment of the French monarchy
Life and times of ‘world’s first’ radical feminist The Connexion celebrates one of France’s inspirational intellectual figures, who helped shape a global shift in political thinking in the Sixties and Seventies, but who is still defined by her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre...
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