The Ministry of Women's Rights (now a secretariat) was a ministry of the Government of France.
As of 2017 [update] (under Macron and the Philippe Government), Marlène Schiappa is the Secretary of State of the new Secretariat of Equality between women and men department. [1] Françoise Giroud was the Minister for Women's Affairs in the first prime ministership of Jacques Chirac. [2]
The Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of the Republic of India. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conferred in recognition of exceptional service/performance of the highest order, without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex. The award was originally limited to achievements in the arts, literature, science, and public services, but the government expanded the criteria to include "any field of human endeavour" in December 2011. The recommendations for the Bharat Ratna are made by the Prime Minister to the President, with a maximum of three nominees being awarded per year. The recipients receive a Sanad (certificate) signed by the President and a peepal leaf-shaped medallion. There is no monetary grant associated with the award. Bharat Ratna recipients rank seventh in the Indian order of precedence.
A newspaper of record is a major newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative. It may also refer to a newspaper that has been authorised to publish public or legal notices, thus serving as a newspaper of public record.
The Minister of the Interior is an important position in the Government of France. The office is equivalent to the Interior Minister of other countries, like the Home Secretary of the United Kingdom, the Minister of Public Safety in Canada or similar to a combination of the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security in the United States.
A comptroller is a management-level position responsible for supervising the quality of accounting and financial reporting of an organization. A financial comptroller is a senior-level executive who acts as the head of accounting, and oversees the preparation of financial reports, such as balance sheets and income statements.
Count Angelo De Gubernatis, Italian man of letters, was born in Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature fourteen times.
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, generally known as Roselyne Bachelot is a French politician who has been serving as Minister of Culture in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex since July 2020. In the past, she has served as Minister of Solidarity and Social Cohesion. She was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement, which was part of the European People's Party.
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS, was a French journalist and politician. He co-founded L'Express in 1953 with Françoise Giroud, and then went on to become president of the Radical Party in 1971. He oversaw its transition to the center-right, the party being thereafter known as Parti radical valoisien. He tried to found in 1972 the Reforming Movement with Christian Democrat Jean Lecanuet, with whom he supported Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's conservative candidature to the 1974 presidential election.
Françoise Giroud, born Lea France Gourdji was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer, and politician.
The Encyclopædia Universalis is a French-language general encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., a privately held company. The articles of the Encyclopædia Universalis are aimed at educated adult readers, and written by a staff of full-time editors and expert contributors.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport (MCD) is the department of the Government of Spain responsible for the promotion, protection and dissemination of the Spanish historical heritage, national museums, art, books, reading and literary creation, of cinematographic and audiovisual activities and of state archives and libraries.
Myriam El Khomri is a former French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as Minister of Labour in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls from 2015 to 2017.
Marlène Schiappa is a French writer and politician, serving as Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship, attached to the Minister of the Interior, in the Castex government of President Emmanuel Macron since July 2020. She previously served as Secretary of State for Gender Equality in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 2017 to 2020.
The second Philippe government is the forty-first government of the French Fifth Republic. It is the second government formed by Édouard Philippe under President Emmanuel Macron, following the 2017 legislative election and the dissolution of the first Philippe government on 19 June 2017.
Amélie de Montchalin is a French politician serving as Minister of Public Transformation and Service under Prime Minister Jean Castex since 2020. A member of La République En Marche! (LREM), she was elected as a member of the National Assembly in 2017 in the 6th constituency of Essonne. From 2017 to 2018 she was the whip of the La République En Marche group in the National Assembly Finance Committee. She served as Secretary of State for European Affairs at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs from 27 March 2019 until her 2020 promotion.
Adrien Taquet is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as Secretary of State for Child Protection in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex since 2019. From 2017 until 2019, he was a member of the French National Assembly, representing the department of Hauts-de-Seine.
Marlene le Roux is a South African disability and women's rights activist. She is co-founder of the Women’s Achievement Network for Disability, and CEO of the Artscape Theatre Centre in Cape Town.
This article lists major events that happened in 2018 in France.
The occupation of Saint - Nizier church by Lyon prostitutes refers to the ten-day occupation of the Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon by more than a hundred prostitutes on 2 June 1975 to draw attention to their inhumane working conditions. The occupation lasted eight days until the women were removed by the police on 10 June. Sympathetic occupations of churches by prostitutes followed in Paris, Marseille, Grenoble, Saint-Étienne and Montpellier.
Events from the year 1624 in France.
Feminist foreign policy, or feminist diplomacy, is a concept that calls for a state to promote values and good practices to achieve gender equality, and to guarantee all women enjoy their human rights, through diplomatic relations. The practice was initiated by Margot Wallström, former Swedish Foreign Affairs Minister.