Editing Generation X (section)

==== France ====
In France, "Generation X" is not as widely known or used to define its members. Politically, this loosely denotes those born in the early 1960s to the early 1980s.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sally|first=Marthaler|title=Partisan De-Alignment and the Blue-Collar Electorate in France|publisher=Springer Nature Switzerland AG|year=2020|isbn=978-3-030-35467-1|pages=59}}</ref> Although fertility rates started to fall in 1965, number of births in France only followed suit in 1975.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Monnier |first=Alain |title=Le baby-boom : suite et fin |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-population-et-societes-2007-2-page-1.htm |journal=Population & Sociétés |date=2007 |language=French |volume=2 |issue=431 |pages=4 |doi=10.3917/popsoc.431.0001 |access-date=24 July 2022 |archive-date=3 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203080704/https://www.cairn.info/revue-population-et-societes-2007-2-page-1.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> There is general agreement that, domestically, the event that is accepted in France as the separating point between the Baby Boomer generation and Generation X are the [[May 68|French strikes and violent riots of May 1968]] with those of the generation too young to participate. Those at the start of the cohort are sometimes referred to as 'Génération Bof' because of their tendency to use the word 'bof', which, translated into English, means "whatever".<ref name="McCrindle" />

The generation is closely associated with socialist [[François Mitterrand]] who served as President of France during two consecutive terms between 1981 and 1995 as most transitioned from teenagers into adulthood during that period. Economically, Xers started when the new labour market was emerging and were the first to fully experience the advent of the post-industrial society. For those at the tail-end of the generation, educational and defence reforms, a new style ''[[Baccalauréat#Baccalauréat général|baccalauréat général]]'' with three distinct streams in 1995 (the preceding programme, introduced in 1968) the 2002 [[Licence Master Doctorat|licence-master-doctorat]] reform for first Millennial graduates ([[Diplôme d'études universitaires générales|DEUG]], Maîtrise, [[Diplome d'Etudes Superieures Specialisees|DESS]] and [[Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies|DEA]] degrees no longer awarded), and the cessation of military conscription in 1997 (for those born after January 1979) are considered as new transition points to the next.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Henseler|first=Christine|title=Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=978-0-415-69944-0|location=London|pages=188}}</ref>