France, March 4 -- President Emmanuel Macron's promise of greater gender equality has been "buried" due to insufficient budgets and weak measures, NGO Oxfam France has warned, just days before International Women's Day.

President Macron made the fight for gender equality and against violence against women"a national priority" when he came into office in 2017. But ambitions have been "buried" the French branch of anti-poverty charity Oxfam said on Monday.

French women still earn 23.5 percent less than their male counterparts in the private sector, and France was ranked the 48th country in the world for economic gender equality by the World Economic Forum in 2024, Oxfamsaidina statementreleased Monday, in the lead up to International Wome...