Confinement can create 'fertile ground for domestic violence,' says the country's minister for gender quality. France is also creating support sites for women at supermarkets and pharmacies.
Philippe Lopez/AFP via Getty ImagesFrench secretary of state for equality between men and women, Marlène Schiappa, in Paris in 2017.A French official announced on Saturday a plan to assist domestic abuse victims during the coronavirus crisis. It includes paying for 20,000 hotel bookings, contributing 1 million euros to organizations that fight domestic abuse and setting up assistance points at supermarkets and pharmacies across the country.
Marlène Schiappa is the secretary of state for equality between women and men. When Schiappa was named to French President Emmanuel Macron's administration in 2017, she was, at age 34, theof his cabinet and an outspoken author and blogger. In an interview with NPR at the time, she said she wanted to make it a crime for men to harass women on the street. Now, in the midst of the coronavirus lockdown, she's turned her primary attention to the burgeoning problem behind closed doors.
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