"French Women Can Freely Open a Bank Account for 60 Years but They Still Struggle to Conquer Their Financial Independence"

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CHRONIQUE. Since 13 July 1965, women have the right to freely open a bank account without the agreement of their husbands. But the financial independence so much desired by the French, according to a study of July 7 of La France mutualiste, still remains to be conquered, explains Isabelle Chaperon, economic journalist at the "World".

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Canadian author Margaret Atwood has often confided: her icy dystopia, The Scarlet Servant, is inspired by historical facts. Regarding the financial guardianship of women, the first of their descent into the underworld, it is not worth looking far. When the novel appeared in 1985, it was only twenty-one years since Canadian women had the right to open a bank account without their husband's consent, one year before France, which will celebrate the…

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The gender gap in education, political and economic participation will close by 68.8% by 2025, and at the current rate of progress, it will take 123 years to achieve full equality (100%), according to the World Economic Forum's (WEF) new report on the issue. The percentage is only three-tenths higher than last year's report, although the estimated time to full equality has been improved by 11 years, which in 2024 was estimated at 134 years, acco…