The French paradox: The more we need scientists, the more we discourage girls from studying mathematics and computer science.

Eric Macé, march 18th 2025 at 1PM. LaBRI amphitheater, Talence campus. Girls perform better than boys in mathematics at the beginning of primary school but score lower by the end of it. They avoid engineering studies, which guarantee success, yet dominate medical studies, where failure rates are high. In France,…