“The fight against violence against women requires continuity”: Laurence Rossignol criticizes the government’s equality policy

It is the fight against sexist and sexual violence “great cause of the five-year period » ? Not really, according to the Court of Auditors, which studied the government’s policy on gender equality between 2017 and 2022. And according to the institution, this fight has not benefited from a “global strategy “.

In a report published on Thursday 14 September, if the Court of Auditors believes that a “Undeniable mobilization » took place, the successive governments of Emmanuel Macron have only achieved “Limited progress “, mainly due to “ method errors ».

According to Laurence Rossignol, the government has “abandoned the plans”

Second Laurence Rossignolthese conclusions are not surprising: “ Here we see neither a culture of evaluation nor a culture of results “. In an interview given to Publicationthe former women’s rights minister criticized “ com and tinker “. For her, this minimal progress is due in particular to a rupture that occurred at the beginning of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency in 2017.

“ I implemented the fifth plan to combat violence against women. We had been working with these projects for about fifteen years; the majorities have changed, but the ministers responsible for gender equality have worked according to their predecessor’s plan. (…) These plans were useful because they allowed it a mandatory exercise of evaluating the previous plan, with the need to start from what was done, what succeeded, what failed and what was missing to build the next plan “.

Lauren Rossignol.

A new plan, continuing the previous ones, was to be put in place in 2020.” However, since 2017, Macronism being Year I of everything, including the fight against violence against women, there has been a break in continuity. We abandoned the plans. But we are in a topic that requires continuity “.

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