# Do Location and Choice Possibilities Affect the Gender. Gap in STEM Specialisation? Evidence from French High Schools
**Date de l'événement :** 02/02/2024
* Publié le 02/02/2024

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## Auteur(s)
Leïla Costil

## Direction
Clément de Chaisemartin, Anne Boring

## Description
**Ce mémoire est issu de la sélection des meilleurs mémoires du master d’économie de l'année 2023-2024 :  
  
Abstract**  
  
How to fight against the underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)? A first step in tackling this issue is to understand the roots of this phenomenon, which is responsible for a large part of the gender pay gap. Using French administrative data on high school students and survey data on the active French population and exploiting the 2019 reform of the high school system, this study investigates the impact of location and of specialisation possibilities on STEM specialisation, at the High School level. Results show that living in a departement where the gender pay gap is relatively lower is not associated with a lower gender gap in STEM. Focusing on the 2019 reform which widely increased the specialisation choices for the last two years of high school indicates however that wide specialisation possibilities have a general significant negative impact on the gender gap in STEM specialisation. This impact varies depending on the socio economic status and the student’s ability: the gender gap largely widened for students of high socio-economic background and those most gifted in Mathematics, but slightly decreased for others. Overall, the reform could be a setback of at least 20 years in the fight against gender inequalities in these fields.  
  
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