Question 17250 — gender equality and parity

Summary

Ms. Céline Calvez questions the Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, responsible for equality between women and men and the fight against discrimination, on the issue of promoting gender equality in student guidance. 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: the emergency actions for real equality. This work has shown that women still occupy too little a place in the so-called “hard” sciences and that despite certain advances, the situation is only evolving very slowly, and sometimes even shows a certain decline. 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 seventh of they are to launch a national information campaign on scientific sectors and professions and their social usefulness by including girls. The objective of this campaign would be to refute commonly accepted misconceptions and to promote atypical career paths. In higher education a pattern of gender orientation clearly emerges. Girls are three times more likely to imagine working in health professions while twice as many boys imagine themselves working in engineering. To compensate for these stereotypes, it is essential to increase girls' awareness of scientific, engineering and digital careers. This is why she asks him if such information campaigns will be set up within schools.

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