Question 17252 — gender equality and parity

Summary

Ms. Céline Calvez questions the Minister of National Education and Youth 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: urgent action for real equality”. This work has shown that women still occupy a place too limited in the so-called “hard” sciences and that despite certain advances, the situation evolves only 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 sixth of these is to create an independent observatory of sex stereotypes in textbooks, responsible for to evaluate the presence of stereotypes and their evolution in school textbooks, an observatory which could, if necessary, issue warnings. Numerous studies show that school textbooks still convey a stereotypical distribution of roles in society. Women remain over-represented in the domestic world and under-represented in political or intellectual spheres. But school textbooks occupy an important place in the identification models offered to students and their parents. This is why she asks him if, while respecting the principle of editorial freedom, a dialogue has been initiated with school textbook publishers so that particular attention is paid to the removal of these implicit stereotypes.

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