Gender equality

For 40 years, Groupe SOS has welcomed, accommodated, and accompanied thousands of vulnerable women within its social and medico-social facilities, ranging from care centers for drug addicts to emergency accommodation shelters for homeless and migrant women. This engagement makes us one of France’s main players in this field.

These women, whose career paths are often characterized by precariousness, are also confronted with a multitude of additional inequalities: exposure to violence, difficulty in accessing care, obstacles to social and professional integration…

As a major player for social cohesion, Groupe SOS is firmly committed against the exclusion of the most vulnerable in our society. We consider it unacceptable that exclusion is reinforced due to gender.

Through all our mechanisms, and through our various cross-sector programs, we fight against these inequalities, pursuant to the same objective: supporting all these women so that they regain their agency.

By relying on our expertise and our transversality, we are building global responses geared towards all women. This commitment led us, in 2020, to include gender equality among Groupe SOS’s priorities, both for the beneficiaries we welcome into our structures, as well as for our employees.

Proud of the progress and aware of the road ahead, Groupe SOS will keep up its efforts and take the position for gender equality to truly benefit everyone, including the most excluded women, by formulating our 10 recommendations.