{"id":774,"date":"2020-03-04T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/?p=774"},"modified":"2020-05-22T14:35:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:35:51","slug":"international-womens-rights-day-2020-higher-education-between-mobilization-and-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/journee-internationale-des-droits-des-femmes-2020-lenseignement-superieur-entre-mobilisation-et-inquietude\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women's Rights Day 2020: higher education, between mobilization and concern (press release)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Once again this year, March 8 is an opportunity for higher education establishments to mobilize around the visibility of women and their rights. <\/strong>To mark the occasion, many of the 93 universities, grandes \u00e9coles and Comue members of CPED are organizing events to question the place of women in science or the arts, to raise awareness of professional equality, to remind people of the importance of gender research, to raise awareness of street harassment, to offer feminist self-defense workshops, to make little-known women visible...<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"To discover our non-exhaustive list of actions, click on the map and then on &quot;View data&quot;: (opens in a new tab).\" href=\"http:\/\/u.osmfr.org\/m\/426761\/\" target=\"_blank\">Discover our non-exhaustive list of actions in establishments :<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/u.osmfr.org\/m\/426761\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"915\" height=\"781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Capture-d screen-2020-03-04-\u00e0-16.53.07.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-777\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" data-srcset=\"\" \/><\/a><figcaption><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/u.osmfr.org\/m\/426761\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Show map (opens in new tab)\">Show map<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The abundance of these initiatives reflects a growing awareness in higher education establishments, which CPED is delighted to see. <strong>The implementation of measures against sexist and sexual violence, which Minister Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Vidal wanted to see effective in all establishments at the start of the 2019 academic year, made clear progress in 2019. Some twenty days of training for higher education staff were provided by the <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The abundance of these actions reflects a growing awareness in higher education establishments, which CPED welcomes. The implementation of measures against sexist and sexual violence, which Minister Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Vidal wanted to see effective in all establishments at the start of the 2019 academic year, made clear progress in 2019. Some 20 training days for higher education staff were delivered by the VSS-Formation network, set up in 2018 by ANEF, CPED and JuriSup. What&#039;s more, in some establishments, the Student and Citizen Life contribution has freed up new resources for equality awareness initiatives. However, the situation remains very uneven from one establishment to another. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"mailto:contact@vss-formation.fr\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>VSS-Training network<\/strong><\/a><strong>set up in 2018 by ANEF, CPED and JuriSup<\/strong>. What's more, in some establishments, the student and community life contribution has freed up new resources for equality awareness initiatives. However, the situation remains very uneven from one institution to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the whole, despite these advances, it has to be said that equality missions do not always have the means to achieve their stated ambitions, nor the necessary institutional support. <strong>The CPED calls for a rethink of the inequitable practices that have become entrenched in the way schools operate, but this remains a difficult task, since it requires a strong political will. <\/strong>As an example, in 2019, CPED mobilized on several occasions to ensure that the use of feminine terms was authorized, whether in the statutes of experimental establishments, or on doctoral degrees awarded to women. On February 25, together with several other associations, it launched the<strong> <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"On the whole, despite these advances, it has to be said that equality missions do not always have the means to achieve their stated ambitions, nor the necessary institutional support. The CPED calls for a rethink of the inegalitarian practices embedded in the way schools operate, but this remains difficult, as it requires strong political will. By way of example, in 2019, CPED mobilized on several occasions to have the use of feminine terms authorized, whether in the statutes of experimental establishments, or on doctoral degrees awarded to women. On February 25, together with a number of other associations, it launched the &quot;Fi\u00e8res de nos talents et des mots qui le disent&quot; (Proud of our talents and the words that say it) campaign to enhance the value of women&#039;s titles and functions. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/launch-of-the-proud-of-our-talents-and-the-words-that-say-it-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Proud of our talents and the words that say it\" campaign <\/strong><\/a>to upgrade women's titles and functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Finally, since 2019, the issue of professional equality has been a major challenge for CPED, as it is for all public-sector employers, with the recent law on the transformation of the civil service making it compulsory to draw up action plans in this area.<\/strong> <strong>While establishments are mobilizing in this direction, CPED remains vigilant about the impact of the bills that are being debated today, whether they concern pension reform or the multi-year research programming bill. <\/strong>The specific risks of research careers becoming less attractive to women, and of widening inequalities between women and men, must be taken seriously to ensure that these laws do not run counter to the progress made in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Communique\u0301-de-presse-CPED-8-mars-2020-1.pdf\"><strong>Press release and contact<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Communique\u0301-de-presse-CPED-8-mars-2020-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cette ann\u00e9e encore, le 8 mars est l\u2019occasion pour les \u00e9tablissements d\u2019enseignement sup\u00e9rieur de se mobiliser autour de la visibilit\u00e9 des femmes et de leurs droits. \u00c0 cette occasion, nombreux sont les \u00e9tablissements parmi les 93 universit\u00e9s, grandes \u00e9coles et Comue membres de la CPED qui organisent des \u00e9v\u00e9nements pour questionner la place des femmes&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[50,46,78,51,77],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actualites","tag-8-mars","tag-actions-etablissements","tag-communique-de-presse","tag-journee-internationale-des-droits-des-femmes","tag-sensibilisation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cped-egalite.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}