Using sociological data collected between 2007 and 2012 in France, this article offers to consider the noticeable changes of social intervention with homeless people, while focusing on gender. The different crisis that France experiences has lead the social workers to rethink their practices and to redefine their purpose in order to preserve the social meaning of their profession. The article demonstrates that this rethinking process is made by juggling between traditional genders norms, considered as qualifying, and contemporary gender norms, derived from actors’ experiences.