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The harsh fact is that women make up only 46% of the working population. There are 12 million working women and on average they earn 20% less than men. They are in fact victims of inequality, first of all in access to work: their unemployment rate is two points higher than for men and 80% of French adults earning less than the index-linked guaranteed minimum wage (SMIC) are women.
There are a variety of solutions. Obviously, women must be given the means to make a genuine choice between working or not, that is they must be given the means to stay at home and look after their children if they so wish, by increasing family allowances, for example.
Reconciling work and family life must at last be made possible, however. Today, single-parent families account on average for 14% of all families with children and 90% of single parents are women. These trends must be taken into account and working hours, childcare systems and childcare allowances, family benefits and parental (maternity or paternity) leave arranged accordingly. Equality between men and women certainly requires that. But we must be very careful to avoid quota systems such as we already have in the political field."@en1
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