Editing Irène Joliot-Curie (section)

===Personal life===
[[File:Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie.jpg|280px|thumb|The Joliot-Curies in the 1940s]]

Irène and Frédéric hyphenated their surnames to Joliot-Curie after they married in 1926. The Joliot-Curies had two children, [[Hélène Langevin-Joliot|Hélène]], born eleven months after they were married, and [[Pierre Joliot|Pierre]], born in 1932.<ref name=":6" />

Between 1941 and 1943 during [[World War II]], Joliot-Curie contracted [[tuberculosis]] and was forced to spend time convalescing in Switzerland.<ref name=":6" /> Concern for her own health together with the anguish of her husband's being in the resistance against the German troops and her children in occupied France was hard to bear.<ref name=":6" /> She did make several dangerous visits back to France, enduring detention by German troops at the Swiss border on more than one occasion. Finally, in 1944, Joliot-Curie judged it too dangerous for her family to remain in France and she took her children back to Switzerland.<ref name=":6" /> Later in September 1944, after not hearing from Frédéric for months, Irene and her children were finally able to rejoin him.<ref name=":6" />

Irène fought through these struggles to advocate for her own personal views.<ref name=":0" /> She was a passionate member of the feminist movement, especially regarding the sciences, and also advocated for peace. She continually applied to the [[French Academy of Sciences]], an elite scientific organization, knowing that she would be denied. She did so to draw attention to the fact they did not accept women in the organization.<ref name=":0" /> Irène was also involved in many speaking functions such as the International Women's Day conference.<ref name=":0" /> She also played a big role for the French contingent at the [[World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace|World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace]], which promoted the World Peace movement.<ref name=":0" /> In 1948, during a strike involving coal miners, Joliot-Curie reached out to Paris Newsletters to convince families to temporarily adopt the children of the coal miners during the strike. The Joliot-Curies adopted two girls during that time.<ref name=":0" />