Question 17310 — women

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, Ms. Céline Calvez and Mr. 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 small a place 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 first of these suggests the strengthening and development of initial training in equality between girls and boys teachers in ESPE, emphasizing the deconstruction of stereotypes. To this end, it is recommended to draft an application circular detailing the volume and content of this equality training. Education is of crucial importance in the fight for real equality between men and women. However, the report presented by Céline Calvez and Stéphane Viry demonstrated that school is often productive of inequalities by its way of considering girls and boys. For example, girls are less encouraged to follow a science course than boys. The consequence of this differentiated treatment is that, although girls are more successful at school than boys, they are much less present in scientific courses. This gap widens as studies progress. These stereotypes must therefore be the subject of systematic deconstruction work. We must raise awareness among teachers and give them tools to guide them in their daily practice. However, currently, this training remains optional for future teachers, and above all very variable from one ESPE to another. Only one school in two believes that it has trained 100% of its students, even though the law creating ESPEs has theoretically made it compulsory this awareness. This is why she asks him if the current and future reforms aim to strengthen and develop equality training in the future higher teaching institutes (INSP).

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