Question 17249 — gender equality and parity

Summary

Ms. Céline Calvez questions the Minister of Culture about promoting the place of women in the field of science. On May 31, 2018, the MP and the MP Stéphane Viry submitted a report on the place of women in the scientific field entitled “Women and science: urgent action for real equality”. This work has shown that women still occupy too little a place in so-called “hard” sciences. and that despite certain advances, the situation evolves only very slowly, and sometimes even shows a certain setback. This imbalance is found from the choice of options at the end of school and into professional life. 23 recommendations are made in this report. The ninth of these is to highlight the professions of technology and innovation through, for example, a fiction series featuring women engineers and technicians, heroines of the series like Dr House for medicine. The “Women and science” report highlighted the existence of numerous prejudices about women's competence in scientific subjects. Mathematics, for example, is not presented as the preferred field of young girls. The consequence is that women are under-represented in this discipline. In teaching higher a sexual orientation pattern appears. Girls are three times more likely to imagine themselves working in health professions while boys are twice as likely to imagine working in engineering. It is therefore essential to change the representations conveyed by society. The creation of such a series can be a way of transmitting to young girls, and more broadly to the whole society, the idea that sciences are not a strictly masculine discipline. It would provide them with an identification model to encourage them to invest in this area. Consequently, she asks him how his ministry encourages authors, producers and broadcasters of French series to create a series featuring women scientists.

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