Less than a month from the first round, that's it: Emmanuel Macron presented his program on March 17, 2022, during a press conference.
After having presented most of its measures relating to women's rights a few weeks earlier, during an interview with LCI and
Elle magazine.
The outgoing president, who boasts of a successful first five-year term on gender equality, promises to once again make women's rights the great cause of his mandate in the event of re-election.
"Because a lot remains to be done," he concedes.
Family and parenthood
Single-parent families.
Emmanuel Macron provides for the creation of an enforceable right to childcare, that is to say the right to a service offer, public or private, of quality.
He also promises the extension of the childcare supplement from 6 to 12 years for single parents - 85% of whom are women - and a 50% increase in the family support allowance, which will increase from 116 to 174€. .
On the maintenance component, of which around 40% are unpaid or incomplete, the candidate plans to "automate the payment by the CAF" - already responsible for a role of mediation between separated parents - even "without judgment (…) , sort of by default,” he explained to LCI and
Elle
.
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Education.
The outgoing president plans to reintroduce mathematics to the common core of terminale.
They came out of it with the reform of the baccalaureate, which led to a dizzying drop in the number of girls who study mathematics in high school, when they are already in the minority in the technical and scientific fields of higher education.
He wants to reform the vocational high school - whose girls represent around 15% of the pupils in the production sectors and 66% in the service trades.
Work-study students will be paid and training offering few opportunities “dereferenced”.
For the benefit of others, "short and professionalizing", "more open to business".
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Work
Equal pay.
As provided by law, Emmanuel Macron only undertakes to apply, from 2022, the financial sanctions incurred by companies that have not adopted measures to reduce the gender pay gap.
Entrepreneurship.
No specific announcement.
Paternity leave.
He recalls the extension of paternity leave from 14 to 28 days (including seven compulsory), adopted in July 2021.
gendered professions.
No particular announcement apart from indirect measures, such as the reintroduction of mathematics in the final year or the establishment of a
testing
policy - simulation of applications from different profiles - systematic.
Conducted with any company with more than 5,000 employees, it will aim to fight against “discrimination in all its forms”.
Health
Health care access.
Candidate Macron intends to open a “major project” in health, starting with medical deserts.
To stem them, it provides for the creation of "punctual permanence in the less endowed territories", the development of teleconsultation and the addition, for general practitioners, of a fourth year of internship, coupled with aid for encourage people to settle in rural areas.
It also plans, to relieve doctors, to review the allocation of acts of care among health and paramedical personnel.
Finally, he announces that he wants to “guarantee, under certain conditions – young children, women, people with chronic illnesses, the elderly – access, through a number that can be called from anywhere in the territory, to a health professional when her attending physician does
Female diseases.
Emmanuel Macron wishes “to continue to develop preventive health check-ups covered at 100%, in particular for breast cancer screening”, and to create a platform
through
which women can make an appointment with a gynecologist “within a of two months, or even an emergency period when justified".
In early January, the candidate also announced a "national strategy" to improve research, screening, and treatment of endometriosis.
This plan, for the moment devoid of budget or timetable, should include schools, universities and health professionals.
On the other hand, the inclusion of endometriosis in the list of long-term conditions is not mentioned.
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IVG.
No particular announcement, apart from the promise to maintain the extension of the legal period for recourse to an abortion from 12 to 14 weeks, voted by Parliament at the end of February 2022, but to which President Macron was unfavorable.
GPA.
"I will continue to outlaw this practice," reaffirmed the candidate during the presentation of his program on March 17.
Reimbursement of contraception.
No specific announcement.
Disabled adult allowance (AAH).
Despite recent debates as to the method of calculating this allowance, the amount of which varies for the moment according to the income of the spouse, the candidate does not provide for any revaluation or individualization of the AAH.
Violence against women
Support for victims.
Emmanuel Macron plans to increase the number of social workers present in the police stations by 200 and to develop a complaint system outside the police station, still in its infancy, until opening the possibility of filing a complaint online.
Recruitment, training and institutions.
He wants to double the number of investigators specializing in domestic violence and violence against women, to increase it from 2,000 to 4,000 specialized police officers.
Emmanuel Macron also announces the creation of a specialized judicial center and a file of perpetrators of domestic violence to improve their monitoring and trigger the alerts necessary for the protection of victims.
Street harassment.
The amount of fines for harassment will be tripled and will reach €300.
Sexism.
No specific announcement.
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