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The traditional religion of France is Roman Catholicism, but today it is no longer the state religion; and contemporary France is one of the most secular countries in Europe. [33] In France, freedom of religion is guaranteed by the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen .
In 1909, French noblewoman and feminist Jeanne-Elizabeth Schmahl founded the French Union for Women's Suffrage to advocate for women's right to vote in France. Despite some cultural changes following World War I , which had resulted in women replacing the male workers who had gone to the front, they were known as the Années folles and their ...
In France, recent polling data suggests 86% of people are now favorable to the constitutionalization of abortion rights. On November 3, the French government presented a draft text to France’s ...
The Mouvement de libération des femmes (MLF, transl. Women's Liberation Movement) is a French autonomous, single-sex feminist movement that advocates women's bodily autonomy and challenges patriarchal society. It was founded in 1970, in the wake of the American Women's Lib movement and the events of May 1968.
France’s Prime Minister Gabriel Attal hailed the vote as “a great victory for women’s rights,” while Gender Equality Minister Aurore Bergé called it “historic.” “We have a duty to ...
While a small group of protesters stood outside the joint session, there were jubilant scenes of celebrations all over France as women’s rights activists hailed the measure promised by Macron ...
France inscribed the guaranteed right to abortion in its constitution Friday, a powerful message of support for women’s rights on International Women’s Day. Justice Minister Eric Dupond ...
International Women's Day march in Paris on 8 March. France legalized women's suffrage on 21 April 1944. The Neuwirth law legalized birth control methods on 28 December 1967. Youths were given anonymous and free access to them in 1974. Abortion was legalized in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy by the Veil law on 17 January 1975.