Learn French: L'autonomie demande une bonne gestion du temps. - Autonomy requires good time management.

While you could use requiert (to require) or exige (to strongly demand or require), demander is very commonly used in everyday French to mean to require or to take when talking about effort, time, or personal qualities. It is slightly less formal than the other options but perfectly natural here.

Why does the French sentence use L' before autonomie when English just says Autonomy?

In French, general concepts and abstract nouns almost always require a definite article (le, la, l', or les). Because we are talking about autonomy in a broad, general sense, the definite article is mandatory.

Why is it du temps and not just de temps?

Du is the mandatory contraction of de + le. Just like with l'autonomie, the general concept of time (le temps) requires a definite article in French. So time management translates structurally to management of the time (la gestion de + le temps), giving us la gestion du temps.

How could I connect this sentence to the current lesson's focus on d'une part... d'autre part?