{"id":8888,"date":"2020-05-18T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T07:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/separations-conjugales-et-non-emancipation-des-femmes\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T14:51:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:51:46","slug":"marital-separations-and-the-non-emancipation-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cogito\/home\/marital-separations-and-the-non-emancipation-of-women\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Marital Separations and the (Non-) Emancipation of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

by \u00c9milie Biland-Curinier, CSO *<\/em><\/p>\n

The women mobilised in the Yellow Vest movement rightly denounced the fact that many single mothers face major financial difficulties on a daily basis while raising their children. Yet women originate separation and divorce proceedings more often than men. The high rate of marital breakups provides evidence of their appropriation of this individual right in a relatively recent context of legal equality with men. However, this major social change has not led to the equalization of conditions nor to the disruption of the gender order. Here is a look back at a key victory for women that is still far from enabling their emancipation.<\/p>\n

The right to divorce is a key victory for women<\/h4>\n
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\u00a9 Gwydion M Williams. CC BY 2.0<\/p><\/div>\n

In the second half of the 19th century, as in the 1960s and 1970s, reforms authorising and then facilitating divorce took place during periods of strong feminist mobilisation(1)<\/sup><\/a>Mich\u00e8le Riot-Sarcey, <\/span>Histoire du f\u00e9minisme<\/em><\/a>, La D\u00e9couverte, 2015<\/span><\/span><\/span>