Women in the French Resistance

Simone Segouin, a female combatant of the French Resistance in Chartres on August 23, 1944.

Women in the French Resistance played an important role in the context of resistance against occupying German forces during World War II. Women represented 15 to 20% of the total number of French Resistance fighters within the country.[citation needed] Women also represented 15% of political deportations to Nazi concentration camps.[citation needed]