As France heads to the polls, feminists across the country are calling on the next president to invest in structural reforms to benefit all women | Analysis
The quest for égalité: What's at stake for women in the French electionAnalysis by Megan Clement, for CNNThis story is part of As Equals, CNN's ongoing series on gender inequality. For information about how the series is funded and more, check out our FAQs.
At his final campaign event before the first round of the 2022 French presidential election, Emmanuel Macron told a packed stadium that gender equality would be the"grand cause" of his second term if he won. It was also the grand cause of his first. Gender equality has otherwise featured little in a campaign dominated by the war in Ukraine and the cost of living, but feminist organizations and academics are nonetheless working to highlight the major challenges women in the country face over the next five years, including femicide, gendered Islamophobia, pay inequality and precarious employment.
According to volunteer organization Femicides by a Partner or Ex A report from Oxfam France released last month put it this way: 'Gender equality: grand cause, small results'. The report noted that the €1.3 billion allocated to all gender equality measures represented just 0.25% of the total national budget.
Economist Rachel Silvera Amid rising inflation, Le Pen is campaigning hard on the cost of living. But she is one of the few candidates not to have proposed to increase the minimum wage, a policy that would have an outsized effect on women, who make up 59% of people employed on this wage. Macron's economy minister, Bruno Le Maire, has pledged to increase the minimum wage by €25 a month from this summer.
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