France: Education and Vocational Guidance of Girls

The Ministry for Women's Rights started a nationwide informational campaign in early April on the subject "Vocational Guidance and Training for Girls" as a complement to a campaign on employment: Men and women should have the same rights to education, training, and promotion. But this is only possible, the Minister feels, if girls' education is as diversified as boys'. "We must begin to combat inequalities and change habits of thinking in the school, " declared Ms. Roudy, Minister for Womens' Rights. "There is no such thing as professions for women and professions for men. There are professions for all."