The rider must actually 'officially' wear the jersey, either in the award ceremony at the end of a stage or in the race the next day.

Since the Tour de France Femmes was launched in 2022, the number of different riders to wear the yellow jersey each edition has been:

2022: 4 (Marianne Vos, Silvia Persico, Marlen Reusser, Annemiek van Vleuten)

2023: 3 (Lotte Kopecky, Marlen Reusser, Demi Vollering)

2024: 3 (Charlotte Kool, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Kasia Niewiadoma)

2025: 4 (Marianne Vos, Kimberley Le Court, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Demi Vollering)