What would the world be like if it was women who sexually harassed men in the streets and left men in charge of child care? That alternate universe is the subject of the thought provoking, viral video made by a French director.
When fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld blamed France’s healthcare deficit on "fat people" this month, it was the final straw for French activist Betty Aubrière. She tells us why her group is suing Lagerfeld, and how bigotry against curvy women is as bad as racism and homophobia.
He comes from every part of the political spectrum (though mainly the Right). Sometimes apologetic, sometimes defiant, it was hoped he’d become an extinct species, but this week the Sexist French Politician made a spectacular comeback.
Bertrand Cantat, a French rocker who beat his girlfriend to death in 2004, planned to release his comeback album on November 25, which marks International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. He has since been forced to change the release date.
Marie-Charline Pacquot, a beautiful 26-year-old academic with a cute cat and an active Twitter account, has worked wonders in boosting the public image of her boyfriend - France's balding and boring 55-year-old Finance Minister. But is it all a ploy?
France's medicines safety watchdog on Tuesday revealed that doctors have removed breast implants made by disgraced French manufacturer PIP from more than 16,000 women. Some 25 percent of the products also had signs of splitting or leaking.
Elina Feriel was the glamorous wife of a Marseille gangster. Then one by one, her husband, her brother and her new boyfriend were gunned down in the space of a few years. Now her story, told with wit and passion, is making waves in France.
It appears that men and women are not equal when it comes to booze and fags. The results of a French study, released on Tuesday, revealed women who drink and smoke faced a disproportional risk to their health compared to men.
France has reached a landmark moment in employment equality, with the minister for women’s rights announcing on Thursday that for the first time the government had fined two companies for paying female staff less than their male counterparts.
France launched one its biggest-ever trials on Wednesday as five managers from company PIP faced charges of selling faulty breast implants that sparked a global health scare.
A new French study suggesting women could be better off without bras has been challenged by females. The professor who conducted the study explained his findings to The Local on Thursday, saying more research was needed.
Women should forget everything they've been told about bras. According to a new French study, published on Wednesday, wearing a bra does nothing to reduce back pain, and the chest supports actually cause increased breast sagging.
France’s embassy in India is seeking to warn French women to be particularly vigilant when visiting the country, French media reported on Wednesday. It comes after a series of recent high-profile rapes of foreign and Indian women.
Contraceptive pills cause the deaths of 20 women and lead to around 2,500 cases of blood clots each year in France, according to a report released on Tuesday, which appears to confirm newer generation pills pose a greater risk of causing thrombosis.
A French grandfather has been handed a one-year suspended sentence for filming more than 1,500 women in the toilets of supermarkets in Brittany. He also allegedly burned one woman with acid, "hoping she'd have to go and get changed."
France may be the home of ‘égalité' but gender equality in France is still a hot issue. To mark International Women's Day, The Local speaks to rights group 'Osez Le Féminisme' on sexism, equal pay, prostitution and ‘disgraced DSK’.
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.
Eight feminists flashed their breasts in the heart of Paris's Notre Dame cathedral on Tuesday to celebrate Pope Benedict XVI's shock resignation announcement.
Women in Paris can finally wear trousers without fear of criminal prosecution after the government said a more than 200-year-old ban no longer had any legal effect.
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">France's lower house National Assembly on Wednesday approved a government plan to introduce quotas for the hiring of women to top public sector posts that will hit 40 percent by 2018.</span></p>
<p>A 17-year-old football player was beaten up during a football match in Paris on Saturday. Her coach has said he now plans to quit because of violence in the game.</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>
