Projet Everybody Can do it Programme Grundtvig partenariat éducatif LE DROIT DES FEMMES WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Projet Everybody Can do it Programme Grundtvig partenariat éducatif LES PRINCIPALES LOIS SUR LA QUESTION DU DROIT DES FEMMES EN FRANCE THE MAIN LAWS ON THE ISSUE OF WOMEN’S RIGHT IN FRANCE

Projet Everybody Can do it Programme Grundtvig partenariat éducatif Women rights France allowed women's suffrage on 21 April The Neuwirth law legalized birth control methods on 28 December Youths were given anonymous and free access to them in 1974.Neuwirth Abortion was legalized in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy by the Veil law on 17 January 1975.

Projet Everybody Can do it Programme Grundtvig partenariat éducatif FRENCH WOMEN WHO INSPIRED EUROPE

LOUISE WEISS The Women's Rights Activist From 1918 to 1934, she was the publisher of the magazine, L'Europe nouvelle. In 1934, she founded the association, La femme nouvelle (The New Woman) with Cécile Brunsvicg, and she strove for a stronger role of women in public life. She participated in campaigns for the right of women to vote in France, organised suffragette commands, demonstrated and had herself chained to a street light in Paris with other women. In 1935, she unsuccessfully sued against the "inability of women to vote" before the French Conseil d'État. From 1935 to the beginning of World War II, she committed herself to women's suffrage. During the War, she was active in the French Resistance. She was a member of the Patriam Recuperare network, and she was chief editor of the secret magazine, "Nouvelle République" from 1942 until The European Woman In 1979, she became a Member of the European Parliament for the Gaullist Party (now Union for a Popular Movement). At the time of the first election, aged 86, she was the oldest member in Parliament and thus the EP's first 'oldest member'. She remained MEP and oldest member until her death on 26 May 1983, aged 90.

Simone Veil She was born 13 July 1927, is a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France. A survivor from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where she lost part of her family, she is the Honorary President of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. She was elected to the Académie française in November Minister of Health From 1974 to 1979 she was Minister of Health in the governments of prime ministers Jacques Chirac and Raymond Barre. She pushed forward the following notable laws: Making access to contraception easier (4 December 1974) – the sale of contraceptives such as the combined oral contraceptive pill had been made legal in Legalizing abortion (17 January 1975), her hardest political fight, and the one for which she is best-known