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France is still ‘very sexist’ and needs emergency plan to tackle misogyny, watchdog says

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Five years into the MeToo movement, French society “remains very sexist in all of its spheres”, a government-established equality watchdog said in a report that also sounded the alarm about double-digit rates of sexual violence reported by women.

The High Council for Equality between Women and Men called for a national “emergency plan” to combat what it described as “the massive, violent and sometimes lethal consequences” of sexism against women.

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