“You will be a programmer, my daughter”, or why even at home, my daughter offers to lay the table, and my son does mental calculations…

Aude de Thune had already founded the Women’s Forum out of anger at the lack of female leaders at Davos. Again, it was anger that drove her to create Sistemic, an initiative launched 15 days ago in Paris around a simple observation: the underrepresentation of women in the professions that shape the future. AI, technology, engineering, they have become as rare as in construction, and this trend has been accentuated since the reform of the baccalaureate, pure mathematics has become optional in high school… This same anger fills me as I leave the palace in Tokyo. After attending the morning lectures. despite the freezing rain falling on the city, I’m boiling. My brain does not accept what it heard. Let the exit of girls start from CP (!). That math teachers ask boys more questions in class than girls. That in France there is an anxiety that grips girls before maths lessons and experienced…