The austerity-driven healthcare reforms of previous quinquennia have attacked women's health: maternity units have been closed, abortion centers have had their budgets slashed, and planned parenthood centers have disappeared, depriving many women of access to information on sexuality and contraception.
Financial precarity affects more and more women, with nearly 10 million poor in France. The rate of working poor women rose from 5.6% in 2006 to 7.3% in 2017. Reforms such as the pension reform have amplified inequality, with women's pensions already 40% lower than those of men.
Equal pay legislation is poorly enforced, and women earn on average 23% less than men.
Patriarchal culture permeates French society, from schools to cultural production and even within institutions. Although parity is improving in assemblies, it remains insufficient and reveals the persistence of gender stereotypes.
LGBTI people continue to suffer from verbal and, all too often, physical violence. Intra-family violence in particular has risen sharply during successive lockdowns, with a cruel lack of resources for accommodation and support for young people made homeless by LGBTI-phobic parents. Transgender and intersex people continue to suffer violent discrimination.
