In France, every three days, a woman is killed by her partner or ex-spouse.
Each year, nearly 35,000 are victims of rape.
In terms of employment and income, there is still a lot to do: women still earn on average 16% less than men, do the vast majority of invisible and free work in the home.
As for the pension reform presented by the government, it disadvantages them even more...
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These problems are better relayed in the media and can no longer be ignored by the executive or parliamentarians, but, despite two five-year terms in which Emmanuel Macron has made violence against women his "great cause", much remains to be done.
Former magistrate, ex-assize court judge who had to judge rape and femicide, Minister Isabelle Lonvis-Rome is well aware of this.
She discusses with Laure Manent the question of the possible constitutionalization of abortion in France, the need to educate the younger generations better and by all possible means, as well as the new government measures to protect women and their rights.
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