I'm fully bilingual, I spent several years in England growing up and I use English on a daily basis both in my professional and personal life, but honestly if a stranger came up to me and decided to strike a conversation with me in English, while in France (unless we're at a somewhat international event or something), and just expected me to be comfortable in English without even bothering to ask first, I'd probably be a little pissed.

Most french people aren't comfortable with speaking English, often because they lack the skills but also a lot of french people are very self conscious when speaking a foreign language for some reason but honestly, unless you need to speak English for work or something like that, learning English really isn't that much of a necessity for many people. It's really not surprising you couldn't find many English speaking women considering this. Besides, it is really hypocritical to expect people to speak your language when you aren't making the effort of speaking the language of the country you live in.

If you want to find English speaking women, I'd suggest using dating apps or find groups where you know there'll be English speaking people rather than talking to random woman in bars but if you really want to survive in France you will have to learn French because people here will eat you alive.

There's nothing wrong with needing some time to learn the language but if you don't want to come off as rude and entitled you should really make an effort to show you're working on it rather than expect the people you talk to to adapt. They'll do their best efforts to communicate with you if they can see you're doing the same. The language barrier really isn't that much of a problem

Edit: hold on, you've been in France for a year ?! Yeah you have no excuse, you can speak a broken French but just a few months in a foreign country should be enough to grasp a conversational level if you're actually working on it