Deputies, Senators, Mayors... For parity in politics, the account is (always) not

While the voters took part for the first time in an election, on 29 April 1945, the politician Sandrine Lévêque developed, in an interview with the "World", the evolutions of their vote, which today is divided between left, right and extreme right.

In France, only 28% of power positions are held by women, according to an Oxfam study published on 29 April 2025, 81 years after French women obtained the right to vote and the right to stand for office.

This Tuesday, April 29, marks the 80th anniversary of the first time French women were able to vote in an election. A right obtained after a long fight, which marked the beginning of the emancipation of women...

Eighty years ago, women voted for the first time in France. The opportunity for Oxfam to unveil its first index of the feminization of power on Tuesday. The association denounces insufficient efforts to achieve parity.

Women now represent 36% of the deputies elected to the National Assembly, but there are still many obstacles to their accession to power positions, says Mariette Sineau at franceinfo, Honorary Research Director at Sciences Po.

On 29 April 1945, the French voted for the first time. This historic moment should have marked the beginning of real equality in politics. Yet, 80 years later, gender parity remains an unfinished goal. In 2025, women represent less than one third of the people in power in France. This is what Oxfam France's Index of Feminization of Power reveals: an unprecedented tool for measuring women's position in political and public decision-making. What i…