Pope Francis has broken with Catholic tradition to appoint a woman as an undersecretary of the synod of bishops, the first to hold the post with voting rights in a body that studies major questions of doctrine.
Tens of thousands marched in Paris on Saturday calling for an end to gender violence and femicide in a country where at least 116 women have been killed by current or former partners this year.
Tens of thousands of people rallied across Europe on Saturday against sexist violence, with more than 30,000 turning out in Paris, where a separate protest against rising fuel prices brought clashes.
A French court has fined a man for insulting a woman during an assault on a bus, the first conviction under a new law that punishes sexual harassment in public spaces, judicial sources said Tuesday.
The video of a woman being slapped hard in the face by a man who verbally harassed her has got France talking about sexual harassment on the streets once again. Here's what Parisian women told The Local about their own experiences of being groped and pestered in the French capital.
Fewer women feel the need to get married and fewer have the desire to fulfill their partner's sexual needs. These are just two ways women in France have changed in the last 30 years, according to a survey.
Women across France were encouraged to leave work at 11.44am on November 3rd as part of a campaign highlighting the salary gap between male and female staff.
French feminists will stage a protest in Paris on Monday as film director Roman Polanski, accused of a string of sexual assaults, is expected to attend a retrospective of his work.
Thousands of people took the "Me too" online campaign against sexual harassment and assault started by the Harvey Weinstein affair onto the streets of France Sunday.
A former parliamentary assistant has revealed that there is a "blacklist" of lecherous male French MPs that women working in the National Assembly know to avoid.
A lawmaker in French President Emmanuel Macron's ruling party is facing an inquiry into claims of sexual assault and harassment by his former parliamentary assistant, Franceinfo radio reported Friday.
A new survey reveals that more than one in two French women have been victims of sexual harassment and/or sexual assault. The study comes as a flurry of women are stepping forward to reveal their high profile aggressors including ex-government ministers.
Women took to the streets of one of the poorest areas of Paris on Friday
to protest at what they say has become an all-male “no-go zone”, where any female daring to venture out alone is subject to severe sexist harassment or worse.
French lawmakers voted on Friday to slash tax on tampons and sanitary towels in a move that had initially been opposed by the government, infuriating women's groups.
Men and women - some dressed as giant vaginas - gathered in Paris on Wednesday to protest against a French tax on tampons, as anger grows among women worldwide over high taxation of the essential items.
Men are more likely to be inspired to help women who are wearing high heel shoes, a French scientist has concluded after carrying-out a first-of-its-kind study.
France's finance ministry has vowed to investigate after angry female consumers launched an online petition to protest against the difference in prices between identical products targeted towards men and women, a phenomenon dubbed the "pink" or "woman" tax.
France's whizzkid new economy minister has been begging for forgiveness after referring to women workers at a troubled factory as 'illiterates' just weeks after his boss President François Hollande was accused of calling the poor "toothless".
Recent studies suggest women in France do not feel safe walking the streets of their neighbourhoods and many are afraid of walking around Paris at night. Some argue that gender inequality in the country is partly to blame.
On Monday night all eyes in the football world will be on Frenchwoman Corinne Diacre who will make history in the sport. Despite the attention she says she’s calm ahead of her historic moment.
The last bastion of exclusively male jobs in the French military fell this week when the defence minister announced a pilot program to allow the first women to serve aboard nuclear-armed submarines. The minister also revealed an action plan to end sexual harassment in the armed forces.
France is set to move the remains of two women Resistance fighters to the Pantheon, its monument to great national figures, after an outcry developed about its lack of women interred there.
VIDEO: A French short film that shows men what it's like to be a woman has racked up a whopping 6.5 million views of YouTube. In an interview with The Local the creator said it was inspired by the things women have to put up with on an every day basis.
