Falling birth rate in France: 'We may be witnessing a period of very rapid and highly gendered social change'
- Posted on January 25, 2026
- By Le Monde
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Falling birth rate in France: 'We may be witnessing a period of very rapid and highly gendered social change'

COLUMN. The decline in the number of births should be seen in connection with the "gender divergence" between increasingly progressive young women and increasingly conservative young men, observes economist Pauline Grosjean in her column.