Aude de Thuin had already founded the Women's Forum out of anger – at the absence of women leaders in Davos. It was anger, again, that pushed her to create Sistemic, an initiative launched 15 days ago in Paris, around a simple observation: the under-representation of women in the professions that shape the future. In AI, tech, engineering, they have become as rare as in construction – and the trend is accentuated since the reform of the baccalaureate, pure maths having become optional in high school ... This same anger embraces me as I leave the Palais de Tokyo, after attending the morning conferences: despite the freezing rain that falls on the city, I am boiling. My brain doesn't accept what it heard. Let girls drop out of CP (!). That math teachers ask boys more questions in class than girls. That in France, the gap between the anxiety that grips girls before their math class and the one experienced ...
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