Published: March 8, 2010 By NICOLA CLARK PARIS — Companies in the United States, Spain, Canada and Finland lead the world in employing the largest numbers of women from entry level to senior management, according to a report published Monday by the World Economic Forum. Yet the report also found that, despite increasing awareness of [...]

By KATRIN BENNHOLD Published: March 5, 2010 PARIS — Daniel Louvard does not believe in affirmative action. Time and again, the scientists in his Left Bank cancer laboratory have urged him to recruit with gender diversity in mind. But Mr. Louvard, research director at the Institut Curie and one of France’s top biochemists, just keeps [...]

France is embarking on a grand experiment — how to diversify the overwhelmingly white “grandes écoles,” the elite universities that have produced French leaders in every walk of life — and Rizane el-Yazidi is one of the pioneers. Related France is prodding schools like Sciences Po in Paris to set a goal of increasing the [...]

Paul Butler is associate dean and the Carville Dickinson Benson Research Professor of Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice.” For people who believe that the law is “frozen politics,” this is a teachable moment. The justices’ politics seem more exposed now than usual, [...]

By SUSANA FERREIRA and DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS in Paris JUNE 23, 2009   President Nicolas Sarkozy took sides in a growing debate on the burqa, a head-to-toe garment that is worn by some Muslim women and that conceals their faces, saying it isn’t a religious symbol but "a sign of enslavement and debasement" of women. "The [...]