It’s not easy for women to move into leadership roles. Here are some examples of women executives, presidential candidates, Prime Minister. The path to power is full of pitfalls and sometimes makes some people’s teeth grind.
Report devoted to the place of women and their professional career perspective in an administration like that of the PTT, administration very mysogine until 1972, when the competitions are open to women. Interview with Jeanine CHAMP, Senior Inspector, attached to the Minister’s Office, who testifies to the evolution and the difficult path of women in the PTT. Testimony of a graduate woman who wants to exercise responsibilities without sacrificing her family life.
Alice SAUNIER SEITE, first woman rector, evokes the difficulty of reconciling work and family life for a woman: "It is more difficult because of the maternal vocation, that’s all... it requires a great power of work". She explains that she worked a long time very early in the morning and late in the evening to take care of her family.
Meeting with an entrepreneur, Mme POVINANT, who has been running her factory for 22 years. She says that "the French woman has always been a chef". They believe that French women leaders do not have the aggressiveness that can be encountered in the United States and that they have managed to obtain the same rights vis-à-vis professional unions.
Women represent 15% of the seats on the boards of directors of CAC 40 companies. A law, which has just been passed, establishes a quota of 40% women in councils by 2017 for the largest companies. During a training session at Sciences Po, Christine DUPLAIX, Deputy Director General of the Prosodie Group and Rachel CADO, consultant, spoke on the subject. Jane COBLENCE, co-founder of "Trianon corporate finance", hopes that the fact that she becomes a director will pull women up in her society.
Edith CRESSON, appointed Wednesday, May 15 Prime Minister to replace Michel Rocard, gives her first public intervention to the 13 hours newspaper of Antenne 2. She answers a first question of Philippe LEFAIT concerning the fact that she is a woman: "women are human beings with brains...". To a second question concerning the fact that she was compared to a "favorite", she says "to be the favorite of her voters"...
Meeting in Francheville (Métropole de Lyon) with Céline CHAULEUR, head of the gynaecology-obstetrics department at the University Hospital of Saint-Etienne. Early in the morning the Chaleur family enjoyed a moment together. This was not always the case, when Céline worked on the aggregation competition to become a professor of medicine. Céline admits that it was a very complicated period. "That’s what makes many women give up anyway". Her husband, a general practitioner, explained that he had agreed to work part-time so that he could organize himself on a daily basis. Celine thinks that respect is harder to get for a woman in the position she now holds. Very often the patients are looking for a surgeon behind us. In consultation and ask us who will operate on them. Is it really you?" And it’s almost the same with confreres. "It’s harder when you’re a woman to make your place." At 42, Professor Chauleur remains an exception to this position, but today with nearly 70% of girls in medical schools, she could in the coming years, make emulations.