Women and Science Chair | Partners

The L'Oréal Foundation works for women the world over, helping them to succeed in two major areas that are at the heart of Group’s identity: scientific research and inclusive beauty.

L'Oréal Foundation partnered with UNESCO to create the program in 1998. For Women in Science want to increase the number of women scientific research, because the world needs science, and science needs women. Over 22 years, the work of more than 3,400 female scientists from 116 countries has been supported and highlighted.

Convinced that beauty is key to rebuilding self confidence and a vector of social inclusion, the L'Oréal Foundation also provides high-quality, free vocational training in the beauty sector for women in precarious situations. It also provides access to beauty and well-being treatments in medical and social settings and restorative surgery for people who are suffering physically, psychologically, or socially.

The world needs science, and science, more than ever, needs women. The L'Oréal Foundation is countering this social challenge through its.

For Women in Science program, on which it has been collaborating with UNESCO for the past 22 years.

It also chose to support the Women and Science Chair, to contribute to further research on gender diversity, to identify new levers of action, and to lead to better quality science.

Beyond the issue of gender equality, it’s a matter of a guaranteeing a more inclusive and sustainable science for all.

Generali France is today one of the main insurers in France and offers private, professional and business customers a complete range of insurance solutions (health, life and disability, assistance, property and liability), asset savings and management of assets to more than 7.4 million people.

Established in France since 1832, Generali France relies on the know-how and expertise of its 9,000 employees and its networks of commercial intermediaries, agents, brokers, and partners to be the life-time partner to its customers.

A company committed to a global CSR approach, Generali France guides its customers towards a more responsible, sustainable and inclusive economy through solutions that are perfectly suited to the societal and environmental challenges of our current world.

Generali has a significant need for employees trained in scientific fields in its actuarial, finance, and asset management departments, or in the fields of Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics.

In all of these areas, we are actively seeking to increase the diversity of our workforce: this is the key to talented teams. When faced with challenges such as climate change, risk complexity, or demographic evolution, diversity helps us analyze a situation in a new light.

Young girls need to understand that scientific careers are available to them long before they start their professional trajectory. The Women and Science Chair will be a research center and a central resource in this regard, and we are delighted to establish this partnership.

As a universal exchange agent, La Poste has always invested in research and development in order to offer its customers innovative services, whether it be in the banking or postal fields.

Such investments are even more crucial in an era of digital social transformation. At the same time, La Poste’s values have meant that it has also always been committed to women’s work and gender equality.

That’s why supporting the creation of a Woman and Science Chair makes nothing but sense.

Groupe La Poste has a long-standing commitment to professional equality between women and men. The actions we have already taken and our results (94 points on the gender equality index) reflect a very proactive policy.

Women’s engagement in scientific education today will be key to their engagement in the companies and society of tomorrow. That is why La Poste is proud to be a supporter of the Chair.

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets.

Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible.

Safran has a global presence, with 81,000 employees and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets. Safran undertakes research and development programs to maintain the environmental priorities of its R&T and Innovation roadmap.

Safran is a company listed on Euronext Paris and is part of the CAC 40 and Euro Stoxx 50 indices.

Safran is now fully involved in a large-scale plan to favor gender equality in these fields, especially scientific research. We are therefore supporting the Women and Science Chair, which will help guide our own approach.

For over 15 years, Talan has been advising, supporting and implementing transformation projects for businesses and public authorities, in France and abroad. With operations on four continents and over 3,000 members of staff, the group will achieve a turnover of 310 million euros in 2019.

The group places innovation at the heart of its development strategy and is involved in areas of technological change affecting major corporations, such as Big Data, the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.

Talan takes part in key industry events like Viva Technology and regularly gives talks about the challenges of these revolutionary technologies alongside major industry operators and parliamentarians (Syntec Numérique, French Parliamentary Forum on Artificial Intelligence, Vivatech, etc.).

Understanding why women leave science very early on, even when today’s technologies are mature enough to offer us the opportunity to invent a different world, seems essential to us at Talan.

If this world is to be more open, more inclusive, more responsible, and therefore more just, it has to be imagined and implemented jointly by women and men with as much parity as possible.