Discrimination against women scientists. An unfinished (recent) story

Session moderated by Patrick Boucheron.
Each 30 minutepresentation isfollowed by 10 minutes of discussion.

Abstract

In 1993, Nancy Hopkins measured her desk with a tape measure to prove to her colleagues that women were systematically discriminated against at MIT (and elsewhere)
discriminated against at MIT (and elsewhere). This began a process that culminated in a report on the status of women at MIT, which helped trigger a more general process of reflection on the status of women scientists. What does research tell us about the position of women in science today ? Are the mechanisms of bias, implicit or explicit, still as present ?