Women are only 34 % to study in grandes écoles, 38 % in preparatory classes and university technology institutes, sectors that benefit from the highest public and private financial resources.
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They may be more numerous than men to integrate higher education training, women remain underrepresented in sectors and disciplines benefiting from the best study conditions. The result is a gender disparity, totally linked to orientation choices, which is precisely documentary A note published at the end of October by the Institute of Public Policy (IPP).
This unequal distribution within training has a direct consequence: higher education expenses devoted to students are 18 % lower than those allocated to their male counterparts, who mainly follow courses with a larger number of ‘Hours, in particular of tutorials and practical work, and a higher supervision rate, underlines Cécile Bonneau, doctoral student in economics at ENS-PSL and PSE, and doctoral student affiliated at PPI
Among the young adults aged 18 to 24, women represent 53 % of all students or former students, but “their share in the various channels and disciplinary specialties of higher education varies strongly”, according to The note: 89 % of the registrants in paramedical training (nurse, physiotherapist, speech therapist, specialized educator, etc.) and 57 % of the university registrants are women.
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These proportions are only 34 % in the grandes écoles and 38 % in preparatory classes for the grandes écoles and university technology institutes. However, “these are these sectors and disciplines that benefit from resources – in particular management and volumes in particular – the highest”, whether resources from higher education public spending or private expenses, via the registration fees paid by the parents.
Students finally only form a fifth of the workforce in university training in mathematics, engineering and computer science, establishes the note. Even within the higher technician sections, where they represent 49 % of the workforce, students are overrepresented in “services” specialties and underrepresented in “production” specialties.
“The difference is particularly marked at the top of the distribution: 10 % of students are devoted to spending above 52,500 euros, against less than 5 % of the students, details Cécile Bonneau. Symmetrically, only 10 % of students benefit from expenses at least equal to 35,700 euros, while 17 % of students are in this case. “
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