In 2019, the FIFA Women's World Cup was the event most awaited by the French. The good results of the French women's team in the 2000s and 2010 have largely contributed to the promotion of this sport among women. Women's soccer, although a minority, is in full expansion. Girls under 20 years of age accounted for more than half of FFF (Fédération Française de Football) members.

In 2019, 184,000 women were playing soccer every weekend in France. Women's soccer in the process of recognition A large majority of the state diplomas distributed for the supervision of sports in 2018 were awarded to men. For example, only 16 women held the position of federation president out of 113 as of February 2020. The supervision and management of sports in France is also male-dominated. Only five federations were female-dominated in France. Women made up 87 percent of the members of the French Ice Sports Federation. But it was not the most feminized sport federation. Horseback riding had more than 500,000 female members in 2019. In 2019, they accounted for 38 percent of sports federation licensees. The same year, only 18 percent of French sportswomen were members of a federation. However, this practice was essentially independent, outside the framework of federations. 38 percent said they had run or trekked at least once in the last 12 months. Running and hiking was the most popular sport among French women in 2018.

The slow feminization of sports federations However, sexism and salary inequalities are still present in the sports world. Today, women can compete in almost every sport. By 2019, 27 percent of participants were women.

Paris had to wait until 1979 to see women run on the cobblestones of the capital.

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