As part of its 2024-2025 season dedicated to work, the Cité de l’Économie explores the relationships women have with the world of work through an exhibition by Janine Niépce.
The exhibition highlights her photographs, which bear witness to changes in the position of women during the second part of the 20th century. Organized in three parts, it offers an insight into the daily lives of women from the 50s to the 90s, highlighting their essential contribution to society, their struggles for their freedom from motherhood and for equality and finally their evolution within the world of work. Janine Niépce is one of the first photographers to highlight the daily lives of women in their homes, carrying out unpaid work that is not recognized by society but nevertheless creates value. She photographs the integration in the working world of these women who leave their homes as well as signs of female emancipation such as young women’s access to scientific fields, new fashions (boy cut, mini-skirt, pants) , young people sitting at cafes, women smoking… “For the first time, we no longer saw just dream figures on glossy paper, but women, with disheveled hair, surprised in their kitchen, a child in their arms. (…) Men were used to photographing beautiful women, posing for haute couture models, but rarely doing the laundry!” Janine Niépce, Les Années Femme, Éditions de La Martinière, published in October 1993
Janine Niépce : Regard sur les femmes et le travail
Until January 5, 2025
La Cité de l’Économie
1, place du Général-Catroux
75017 Paris
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