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Launch of a charter for gender parity in the academic world

3 February 2013

On Monday, the 28th of January 2013, Observatoire de Paris welcomed Geneviève Fioraso, Minister for higher education and research, and Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Minister for women’s rights and spokeswoman for the government : they signed the charter for gender parity in the governance of universities.

The ministers present the gender parity charter, signed with the representatives of 300 universities and engineering schools
From left to right : Pierre Tapie, president of the conference of the grandes écoles, Geneviève Fioraso, minister for higher education and research, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, minister for women’s rights and spokeswoman for the government, Vincent Berger, coordinator of the female/male equality working group at the conference of university presidents, Christian Lerminiaux, president of the conference of directors of french engineering schools, Marie-Christine Angonin, vice-president of the administrative committee of Observatoire de Paris, Claude Catala, president of Observatoire de Paris.
Observatoire de Paris / P. Blondé

The Observatoire de Paris hosted a major event in favour of male-female equality. Geneviève Fioraso, minister for higher education and research, and Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, minister for women’s rights and spokeswoman for the government, both came and presented their ministry’s pledge in the framework of the governmental plan for women’s rights and professional equality. In anticipation of the bill concerning universities and research, which will be discussed by the Council of Ministers in March, they launched a charter for the establishment of gender parity in university governance ; they signed this charter in the presence of many personalities from academia.

As soon as they arrived, the two ministers entered into a discussion with two female researchers at Observatoire de Paris, Rosine Lallement and Françoise Combes, also a member of the Academy of Science. They were introduced by Marie-Christine Angonin, vice-president of the administrative committee, in the presence of Anne-Marie Lagrange, CNRS Research Director, laureate of the Irène Joliot Curie prize for 2011.

Women and science

Subsequently, Geneviève Fioraso and Najat Vallaud-Belkacem received, from their authors Michèle Riot-Sarcey et Florence Rochefort, the report on gender equality, prepared by the strategic group.

Rosine Lallement, CNRS research director, and Claude Catala, president of the Observatoire de Paris.
(Observatoire de Paris / P. Blondé)

They were then welcomed by Claude Catala, president of the Observatoire de Paris. The ministers then presented their plan for joint action, and signed the charter for male-female equality, together with the representatives of the conference of university presidents, the conference of directors of french engineering schools and the conference of the grandes écoles. In all, the document involves 300 universities and higher education schools.


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The guidance report on research into male/female equality.
(Observatoire de Paris / P. Blondé)
(Observatoire de Paris / P. Blondé)