欧洲资深社会学家日前指出，法国女人不仅能成为好母亲、好职员，并且身体健康、性感迷人，她们是欧洲最优质的女人。

    据英国《每日电讯报》7月19日报道，将于本周聚集在法国图尔斯召开欧洲人口发展趋势研讨会的众多社会学家和统计学家，日前在法国一家日报上发表了一份题为《法国女人：干练、性感、生育能力强》的研究报告。报告指出，法国女人在生育能力和寿命发面是欧洲最优质的女人。数据表明，平均每个法国妇女生育1.9个孩子，而英国妇女为1.7个，美国妇女为1.4个。在寿命方面，法国妇女的平均寿命达到84岁，居欧洲之首。

    专家指出：“典型的法国女人不仅是个好母亲，也懂得在生活中运用自己的学识，拥有自己的职业，同时还保持她们作为女人的性感魅力。而无论是在政界还是在商场，法国女人也都在彰显她们的魄力。”报告显示，尽管法国女性的生育能力居欧洲之首，但她们的就业比例也是欧洲最高的。

    然而专家表示，法国妇女的这些优势都缘于该国在欧洲享有声誉的“法国劳动者模式”——工作时间短、劳动权利明确、社会保障制度稳定等。法国人每周35个小时的工作时间使得许多法国母亲在不耽误工作的情况下，获得更多照顾孩子的时间。

    （ 蒋黎黎）

    French women lead Europe as mothers, workers and in health and sex appeal, say some of the country's leading sociologists.

    Academic research has lent a little support to President Jacques Chirac's Bastille Day insistence that France should not envy Britain, despite recent jolts to national pride: desperately high unemployment, plummeting spending power and London's victory over Paris to hold the 2012 Olympics.

    Ahead of a seminar on European population trends in Tours this week, sociologists and statisticians have come up with a series of figures that prompted the daily paper Libération to headline a report yesterday: "The French woman: at work, seductive and fertile."

    The paper described French females as "champions of Europe" for producing babies and longevity. Official figures put them on a par with the Irish in terms of fertility, with 1.9 children born to each woman, compared with 1.7 in Britain or 1.4 in America.

    On life expectation, French women are said to vie with the Spanish, reaching an average age of nearly 84.

    Commentators and experts anxious for something good to say about the "French model" - shorter working hours, entrenched labour rights and a social security system that critics say France cannot afford - speculate that it has much to do with the supposed supremacy of womanhood.

    Aids to an emancipated womanhood include France's municipal crèches, supervised homework sessions, subsidised holiday camps for children and generous family allowances.

    Even the much-derided 35-hour working week plays its part, theoretically giving working mothers more time to spend with their children without losing out at work.