Question

France has recently banned people from covering their faces in public, which was widely understood to target muslim women from wearing full-face veils. this indicates that the ______ cleavage is still salient in france.

Answer 1

I believe the answer is : Secular-clerical

Secular-clerical cleavage refers to a form of regulations that specifically made to target members of a certain religious group.
The intention by the French Government is to prevent potential terror attack from happening, but this would create a problim for devout muslim women, even if those women are law abiding citizens.