On the occasion of the "Fête de la science", focus on the (insufficient) number of women in research: indeed, 30% of researchers are researchers and 3% of Nobel Prizes are women. Yet some women’s courses are impressive... Testimonies: Orianne DUMAS (researcher at Inserm - University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) // Nathalie CARRASCO (researcher at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - in charge of gender equality) // Eric SARTORY (Historian - author of the book "History of Women Scientists")
At the Université Joseph Fourier in Saint-Martin d'Hères, an exhibition presents the journey of 12 women scientists from the region. The goal: to pay tribute to women who do research and to inspire new vocations.
This year, the "Women’s forum" in Deauville offers "speed dating" around the professions of science under the generic name "Women physics". The purpose of these meetings is to highlight women in science...
Researchers and women engineers are largely in the minority in the research community. Testimonies: Jimena ROYO LETELIER (Doctor in applied mathematics at Deezer) // Manuel MOUSSALLAM (Research engineer Deezer)
Testimonials from three scientific scholarship recipients. Anne BOULAIGRE, Valérie VERGES and Agnès MIRAS, high school students, already have a very precise idea of their professional future. They want to become engineers, in a scientific environment that is still very closed to women.
As part of the "Science Festival", focus on the place of women in research. In the 1990s, women’s access to leadership positions was the subject of considerable debate. But what about 20 years later?