All 3 things are so typical:
1) Ascetics living the high life
2) The French striking
3) Europeans throwing modern civil rights under the bus to accommodate foreigners who don't respect women
So to shake your head and think "Woke Europe" would be too simplistic.
In this case equality between men and women, but let's not pretend that for most ideologies that is any more than just one of many inequalities they would like to introduce. Sorry, "to have respected", as if that means anything different.