Baba Yagas, a place for women

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On-the-spot France

Friday 06 January 2012

Baba Yagas, a place for women

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Baba Yagas founder Thérèse Clerc (left, 84 years young) with new recruit Odette Menteau

Alison Hird

By Alison Hird

French women have the world's second longest life expectancy after Japan, with an average age of 84 and a half years. But even if they are living longer, the majority don't want to end their days in expensive retirement homes. In the French suburbs of Montreuil, east of Paris, a group of around 20 ageing but dynamic feminists, known as the Baba Yagas, have managed to obtain 4 million euros of State money to build a women-only entirely self-managed residential home. As the project nears completion, we report from the House of the Baba Yagas.