Are quotas supporting or detrimental to the development of women's career? An analysis of a pilot survey on computer science higher education and research in France Cover Image

Les quotas : levier ou frein au déroulement des carrières des femmes ? Analyse suite à une enquête préliminaire dans le cas de l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche en France dans le domaine de l’informatique
Are quotas supporting or detrimental to the development of women's career? An analysis of a pilot survey on computer science higher education and research in France

Author(s): Cécile Favre, Laurence Tain
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Social Informatics
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Quotas ; Computer Science ; Academics; Gender;

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the preliminary results of a qualitative survey on the implementation of quotas policies, in the context of higher education and research in France, in the field of computer science specifically. Beyond the theoretical controversy over quotas, it is a question of diving into the heart of an environment that we can describe as specific (and of which we will draw some of the specificities), to collect the experience, the words of women, who are computer scientists in the academic environment, in relation to quotas. The main idea is to question the quotas implementation in order to study in which sense these quotas can indeed lead to more professional equality, but also to study the context in which they can slow down this professional equality.

  • Issue Year: XX/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 37-54
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: French