Topics survey – Women in science and engineering

Under the effect of the digital transformation and the energy transition, scientific skills are and will be even more the heart of the sectors of the future and of the jobs that are attractive to the younger generations.

Valérie Wack
Published on 17 May 2022
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"Contrary to other specialities, this limited presence of women in the engineering professions is not a problem of discrimination in hiring but is directly linked to the low number of women trained in engineering schools each year."

Under the effect of the digital transformation and the energy transition, scientific skills are and will be even more the heart of the sectors of the future and of the jobs that are attractive to the younger generations.

In this document, we warn of the risk of seeing half of our country’s talent, namely women, miss out on these promising opportunities. And worse, we risk losing the difficult progress made in recent years in the field of gender equality and parity…

Indeed, it is clear that the scientific field and the engineering profession in particular are still lagging behind with a low rate of feminisation.

Valérie Wack
Published on 17 May 2022