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The 2010 pension reform was the final outcome of France’s progressive integration into the European Union’s strategy for modernization and adaptation of pension systems. France adopted the objectives of the “open method of coordination” and took into account the EU’s criticisms and suggestions. The low employment rate of workers between the ages of 55 and 64 is the French pension system’s main problem. In raising the retirement age two years, France is trying to modify the end of older workers’ professional career and their role in the labor market while dismantling the social compromise of the 1970s-80s that implemented an age-based sharing policy. The Europeanization of social policy, however, will also require a major discussion of the integration of women into the labor market in order to reduce gender inequalities in pensions.