Annette Young

Paris

Journalist and Presenter at France 24

Senior Journalist & Presenter @FRANCE24. Also creator & host of the @_51percent. Talks a lot about #equality. And yes, I do have an Australian accent.

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Articles

Why do women live longer than men?

5 days ago | france24.com | Annette Young

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Why is there such a gender gap when it comes to which sex lives the longest? Globally, women tend to outlive men by at least five years.
Why do women live longer than men?

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Annette Young |Yong Chim |Stéphanie Cheval |Elisa Amiri |Aline Bottin

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21, according to a memo issued to the force on Friday. It is the broadest and most detailed directive so far on …
Inside Hitler's concentration camp for women

1 week ago | france24.com | Annette Young

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. As Europeans mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War, in this special edition, we're focusing on the French women who were sent to a concentration camp for aiding the Resistance.
Can feminism be African?

2 weeks ago | france24.com | Annette Young

In this special edition, we're focusing on women's rights in Africa. As UN Women writes, women on the continent are the backbone of family and communities. Yet many endure the worst working conditions with unpaid care, low pay jobs and little or no social protection. They also suffer from different forms of violence including female genital mutilation, child marriage and physical violence.
Robert Thorogood on why his British murder mysteries are a hit with the French

1 month ago | france24.com | Annette Young

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. If you're a fan of Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries, you probably already know of Robert Thorogood. He's the man behind the book and BBC series "Death in Paradise" and "The Marlow Murder Club".
The brave women of Ukraine

1 month ago | france24.com | Annette Young

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. With the war with Russia now in its fourth year, the number of women joining the Ukrainian army continues to soar to some 70,000 up from 56,000 at the start of the Russian invasion. Our colleagues at France 2 went to meet the female fighters of Bucha.
Women in Syria: Could the future be female?

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Annette Young

In a special edition, we focus on Syria, a nation emerging from decades of a brutal dictatorship. The country’s interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has signed a constitutional declaration, laying out rights for women and freedom of expression. This after his Islamist-led rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad’s government last December. Yet sectarian violence still threatens to split the country apart as we saw recently with those attacks directed at the Alawite community, treated as associates of Assad.
A feminist retelling of 'Moby Dick'

2 months ago | france24.com | Annette Young

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. What happens when you gender-flip the tale of "Moby Dick"? Annette Young talks to British-Chinese author, Xiaolu Guo, who has done just that with her latest book, "Call Me Ishmaelle".
Consent & the Pelicot case: Will it result in changes to French law?

2 months ago | france24.com | Annette Young

To mark International Women's Day, we focus on what was clearly the biggest story in France in recent months. That being the rape trial of Gisele Pelicot who went on to become a global feminist icon after waving her right to remain anonymous. A court in Avignon hearing how for nearly a decade, the 72-year-old grandmother had been drugged unconscious by her husband and offered to more than 80 strangers for sex.
Women can have a dark streak too: The need for more research into female psychopaths

2 months ago | businessandamerica.com | Annette Young

Now when you think of a psychopath, what images immediately come to mind? Most likely that of a man; be it Adolf Hitler, Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson or Joseph Stalin. Not so, says Annette Young’s guest this week. Miriam Frankel, the Senior Science Editor at the Conversation Media Group, talks about why scientists have been seemingly reticent to explore dark traits among women.