Question 8663 — defense

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The French armies currently have more than 30,000 women out of a total of around 200,000 soldiers. All professions and specialties are now open to women who are engaged in the different theaters of operations alongside their male brothers in arms. The dynamic of feminization observed since the professionalization of the armies makes it necessary to seek measures to optimize compatibility between lives. professional and private life at certain moments of the career, in particular during family-related leave such as maternity leave. The “Plan to support families and improve the living conditions of soldiers”, presented by the Minister of the Armed Forces in October 2017, as the provision of Law No. 2018-607 of July 13, 2018 relating to military programming for the years 2019 to 2025 and relating to various provisions concerning defense mentioned by the honorable parliamentarian, therefore aim to facilitate the reconciliation of personal life and operational constraints, while ensuring that skills are maintained. With regard more particularly to access to higher military education, the management practices implemented by the armies and attached formations are part of the general framework of the policy developed by the ministry to promote professional equality between women and men and go in the direction of adapting curricula. They result in particular in derogatory measures which offer women on maternity or adoption leave the possibility of benefiting either from more favorable conditions of seniority of grade allowing them to postpone their application, or from a postponement of the required age limit, or a postponement of their application or the taking of the tests. Consideration is underway to extend these measures with a view to better reconciling family life and access to higher military education. These measures aim to help female officers to complete the different stages of the career of a certified officer: education at the war school, taking a time of command or responsibility, access to the highest level of higher military education, then to the rank of general. The Ministry of the Armed Forces is therefore pursuing an active policy aimed at increasing the number of female general officers in particular. In this regard, it can be highlighted that there were 35 female general officers in 2017, 5 of them having been appointed during the year.

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