{"id":311557,"date":"2025-08-02T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311557\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:24:19","slug":"how-frances-1975-amicable-divorce-law-transformed-gender-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311557\/","title":{"rendered":"How France&#8217;s 1975 amicable divorce law transformed gender relations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">In the years leading up to the adoption of the July 11, 1975, law on amicable divorce, the family model in France underwent profound changes. &#8220;We started moving away from a very rigid vision of gender roles \u2013 the father at work, the mother at home \u2013 that had been well established since the 1930s,&#8221; explained sociologist Fran\u00e7ois de Singly, a specialist in family and couple dynamics at Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9. &#8220;Women, including mothers, were entering the workforce en masse. It was the beginning of the consumer society, with a dual-income family model.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">Marriage became more egalitarian, and the constraints of married life loosened. Legislation that amended matrimonial regimes in July 1965 \u2013 finally allowing married women to manage their own assets and employment contracts as they saw fit, without needing their husband&#8217;s consent \u2013 had only been in place for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">&#8220;Before this law, marriage was an entirely patriarchal institution,&#8221; said C\u00e9line Bessi\u00e8re, a family sociologist at Universit\u00e9 Paris-Dauphine. &#8220;This shift did not happen without friction. Since mothers began working, journalists spoke about children being &#8216;orphans&#8217; during the day,&#8221; said de Singly.<\/p>\n<p>           &#8216;The judge had to assign blame&#8217;        <\/p>\n<p class=\"reading-mode-only \"><strong>You have 75% of this article left to read. The rest is for subscribers only.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the years leading up to the adoption of the July 11, 1975, law on amicable divorce, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-311557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114958451508362973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}