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Unité Affaires Internationales et Européennes
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Key figures and Initiatives
Françoise Belet
Lidköping – Tuesday 22nd March 2011
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Women in Science and Technology Training
• In the Paris Region, only 37% of girls opt for a scientific degree.
Employment in the university sector• In 2005, 34% of researchers were women, this
percentage is slowly increasing.
Employment in the private sector• In private research, 20% of researchers and
29% of technicians were women.
Entrepreneurship• Women account for 27% of all entrepreneurs.
In IdF region only 1 company out of 4 is created by a woman.
• There are 3 types of brakes : prejudice and culture, working environment and career
• “the glass ceiling” is at work
Initiatives : • The regional action plan in apprenticeship on
the agreement for equality between girls and boys on issues such as gender-related images of the self and the professions.
Exhibitions « L’apprentissage au féminin ». (Woman in apprenticeship).
• Companies or professional groups (Metallurgy Industry and Employment Union, Building Federation) are looking to recruit more women.
• Associations including « Femmes&Sciences » (Women and Science) and the Association for equality in science and technology jobs.
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Entrepreneurship and access to financing
• Women account for 29% of entrepreneurs in the IdF region.
• Mainly in the service sector (79,5%) with local customers.
• Half of it are small limited-liability companies.
Private life and access to financing• 14,9% of women against 28,9% of men
declared they had the support of their partner whilst creating their business.
Social economy and access to financing
• The social and solidarity economy accounts for 374,000 jobs (men or women)
Initiatives: • France business Angels facilitate the
financing for the creation of a business.
• IRFED EUROPE offers assistance/training modules to unemployed migrant women who want to create their own businesses in order to return to work.
• France Active Île-de-France manages the FGIF (i.e. financial guarantee scheme for female entrepreneurs) implemented by the Regional Delegation for Women's Rights : local network, financial support for jobs in solidarity economy.
• L'Atelier - an Île-de-France social and solidarity economy resource centre is open to all (both men and women).
Women’s access to financing
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Career development and job security• 36.1% of women in the Île-de-France region work
in the public sector, compared to 20.8% of their male counterparts.
• Especially in the fields of education, health, social welfare and public administration(75%).
• In the administrative authorities, four times as many women than men work part-time
• Health and well-being• Women account for 58% of cases of musculo-
skeletal disorders (MSD). Abilities and skills development
• Women pinpoint abilities considered as being typically female (multi-tasks 78%).
• But there is a « glass ceiling » for management jobs.
Work-home life balance• More than 62% of regional officials on parental
leave are women. Pay gap
• The wage differential or gender pay gap was of 12,8% in the ile de France regional civil service in 2007.
Initiatives : • On January 13, 2011, a bill related to the
equal representation of women and men on Boards of Directors and Supervisory Boards and to equal access to employment was passed by the French National Assembly.
• At the Île-de-France Regional Council, financial assistance for childcare is available to officials who work staggered hours up to 70% refundable.
• Nationally, the law dated 23/03/2006 calls for the elimination of pay gap between women and men within five years.
• The "Equal Access to Employment Seal of Approval" (“Label Egalité professionnelle”) issued by AFNOR has been recognised as a sign of "best practice" by the European Commission since April 2010.
Working conditions in the public sector
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