Des Filles: Libres

Across Europe and North Africa, financial independence remains the most concrete measure of liberty. The Observatoire des Inégalités reports that women in France still earn 15% less than men on average, and young women are overrepresented in part-time, precarious work (often called petits boulots ). Yet a quiet revolution is happening.

As the poet wrote: “La liberté, c’est d’exister. Et d’exister, c’est d’oser.” Des filles libres

But the same device that liberates also imprisons. Across Europe and North Africa