Women and politics

The future President of France may be a woman...

It's the first time that one of the 2 main political parties has chosen a woman as its candidate for the presidential elections. Ségolène Royal represents a great hope here against the right-wing candidate Nicolas Sarkozy (he has not be designated yet as the official candidate but nobody doubts about it) and she seems quite open as for ecological matters. Even if she's not really new in politics (she belonged to the "team" of the former President Mitterrand), she can help showing the path for women who have political ambitions...

This morning I read an article about the world classification of countries as for gender equality. Sweden, Norway and Finland are without surprise at the first 3 places of this classification. But the great suprise is that the Philippines are at the 6th rank when France is classified at the 70th rank!!! France is among the 4 less-advanced European countries in this matter (together with Italy, Malta and Greece)! SHAME ON US! So, as you can see, there's a lot of work to do before seeing more women in politics in the country of "liberté, égalité, fraternité"...

Week-end in Sète

Here come a few pictures from last week-end which I spent with Olivier in Sète (in the South of France, on the Mediterranean Sea). The weather was very nice (although a bit cold) and I met very nice people (Claudia and Olivier, Marilyn and Adriano from Nice, Céline and Kevin from Paris, Guilherme...), all members of a really interesting association that deals with adopted people : htttp://lavoixdesadoptes.blog4ever.com/blog/index-2995.html (the webpage is in French)


Aqui vienen algunas fotos del ultima fin de semana que pasé con Olivier en Sète (una ciudad del Sur de Francia en el mar mediterraneo). Hizo un tiempo estupendo (aunque un poco frio) y conoci a gente muy maja : los amigos de Olivier, Claudia y Olive (muchisimas gracias por todo!), y los miembros de una asociacion muy interesante que trata de ayudar y reunir a las personas adoptadas que lo quieren (http://lavoixdesadoptes.blog4ever.com/blog/index-2995.html, la pagina web es en francés...).

Voilà quelques photos du week-end dernier où je suis allée à Sète avec Olivier voir des amis à lui (Claudia et Olive). Il a fait un temps magnifique tout le week-end et j'ai vraiment passé de supers moments avec Clo, Olive, Céline et Kévin de Paris, Marilyn et Adriano de Nice, Guilherme...J'ai ainsi pu découvrir une association jusque là inconnue pour moi, "la voix des adoptés", qui a pour but d'aider et de réunir des enfants et personnes adoptés (ainsi que leurs parents et leurs amis). Je mets ici le lien pour que vous alliez y jeter un coup d'oeil : http://lavoixdesadoptes.blog4ever.com/blog/index-2995.html