Session moderated by Françoise Combes.
Each 30 minute presentation is followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
The proportion of women in computing, both in industry and academia, is one of the lowest among scientific disciplines. This hasnot always been the case : many of the pioneers who gave rise to modern computing between 1945 and 1980 were women, particularly in the field of computer programming and programming languages and systems . It was only later, when it became known to the general public through strongly gendered clichés (the geek, the hacker, the entrepreneur in his garage, etc.), and gained academic recognition as a scientific discipline and field of lectures, that computer science became massively masculinized. In addition to the lack of interest on the part of female high-school and university students in many other scientific disciplines, there has been a significant influx of male high-school and university students attracted by these new possibilities, resulting in considerable gender disparities. However, these disparities are not inevitable ; to better understand them is also to better understand the importance and effectiveness of a number of best practices that have been proposed to include more women in the world of computing.
