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AKC: Chancengleichheit

AKC 3: Fachsitzung

AKC 3.2: Invited Talk

Monday, March 22, 2004, 17:30–18:30, HS 109

Women in Physics : The French Experience — •Evelyne Roueff — Laboratoire de l’Univers et de ses Théories, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, 92195 Meudon, France

A reasonable amount of women chooses a scientific career in France. The talk will focus on French women in academic science and engineering, and on their education.

The status of women in scientific employment will be described thanks to recent statistical data. The relatively favorable situation of French female scientists is probably related to the present social structure of the French society, in particular its child-care system, and the stable permanent positions in academia, where people are hired in their early thirties.

Recent developments of gender studies will be mentioned in relation to possible positive actions for promoting the position of womens in Science.