Frise-L'exemple de la France
1791: Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens by Olympe de Gouges.
1836 : Creation of primary education for girls.
1850 : The Falloux law makes it compulsory to create a girls' school in all communes with more than 800 inhabitants.
1881-1882 : The Jules Ferry laws establish compulsory, public and secular primary education, open to both girls and boys.
1919: Creation of a female baccalaureate. Girls have access to universities.
1924: Equivalence of school programs and exams (e.g. baccalaureate) between boys and girls.
1937: Women are allowed to teach Latin, Greek and philosophy.
1944: Women obtained the right to vote and the possibility to be elected.
1946: Principle of equality between men and women included in the preamble of the Constitution.
1972: Law on the principle of equal pay for men and women for the same job: "equal pay for equal work". The Ecole Polytechnique becomes mixed: 8 women are admitted, Anne Chopinet becomes valedictorian of her class.
1974: Veil Law on Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy, finalized in 1979. Reimbursement of contraception by social security.
1983 : Roudy Law concerning professional equality between men and women. Prohibition to refuse to hire a person, to grant a training or a promotion because of sex.
1986: Circular recommends the feminization of the names of professions, functions, grades or titles.
2001: Génisson law concerning professional equality between men and women. Every 3 years, professional equality within a company must be addressed by the social partners.
2006: Interministerial convention for equality between girls and boys in the educational system. For girls, the age of legal marriage is raised to 18 instead of 15.