Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Sunday called for a black feminist festival in the French capital to be banned, saying it was "prohibited to white people."
Feminists called for protests Thursday at the "French Oscars" next month after controversial film director Roman Polanski agreed to preside over the ceremony.
France's freshly reshuffled government left some puzzled Friday over the role of new ministries such as that of "real
equality", while another linking "family, children and women's rights" has irked feminists.
A feminist organization has changed the street signs of a Paris neighbourhood so that they bear women's names instead, protesting the lack of streets in the city named after famous female figures.
A group of feminists, some dressed as princesses and maids, briefly occupied a Paris toy shop Saturday to protest the gender stereotypes fuelled by toys in the run-up to Christmas.
Sexism is rife in the French workplace, according to a survey published this week. To see how bad the problem is The Local speaks to both a high-profile equal rights group and a business etiquette expert, who also offer advice on how to deal with sexism at work.
There was outrage in France on Wednesday over a provocative “Hands off my Hooker” campaign which has enlisted 343 self-proclaimed "scumbags" to oppose the abolition of prostitution.
Two French women and one German, members of activist group Femen, were arrested in Tunisia on Wednesday, after baring their breasts outside a courthouse in Tunis. Their leader in Paris told The Local, "We are ready for any reaction."
Femen, a group of topless feminists staged their latest protest on Sunday this time disrupting a march by supporters of France’s far-right in Paris. Four bare-chested women unfurled a banner which read “Sextermination for Nazism”.
A video (see below) advertising clothes made by French fashion label Louis Vuitton, in which top models are used to play prostitutes on the streets of Paris has angered feminist groups in France. Louis Vuitton says it had nothing to do with the clip.
France’s women’s rights minister has promised a change in the law that could see prostitutes return en masse to the streets of Paris and other city centres.
A desperate, loving father kept from his son, or a manipulative, abusive attention-seeker? Either way, it was impossible to ignore his dramatic four-day protest in Nantes from Friday to Monday. Meet Serge Charnay, our French Face of the Week.
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has launched legal action against the feminist group Femen who flashed their breasts in the heart of historic church to “celebrate” Pope Benedict’s decision to step down.
A black rights group on Monday slammed the latest Miss France competition for producing a "white as snow" winner from a field it claimed was unrepresentative of the country's ethnic make-up.
<p>French men still refuse to pitch in and take on their fair share of work around the home. A recent survey shows that that women do twice as much household work as men.</p>
<p>French feminists demonstrated in Paris calling on authorities to change French grammar. They say grammar rules convey sexist ideologies and should be reformed.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Using the word "mademoiselle", or "miss", on official forms will be banned in France after prime minister François Fillon issued an instruction to all ministries to drop the term.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A country-wide campaign by feminist group ‘Osez le feminisme’, says the clitoris is too often forgotten.</span></span></p>
