Gender Equality Plan

École Polytechnique commitment for gender equality constitutes the grounds for building an internal diverse environment that faces current social challenges.

As part of its commitment to gender equality in the workplace, École Polytechnique has established a new action plan for 2024-2027, approved by the Executive Board on September 19, 2024. With this plan, École Polytechnique reaffirms its ambition to provide its staff members with a balanced, respectful, inclusive, and attractive working environment.

This plan aims at:

• Promoting gender parity and ensuring equal access to all positions within the institution;

• Ensuring that all staff members, regardless of gender, benefit from the same working conditions, remuneration levels, and promotion opportunities.

  This three-year plan focuses on equality measures for lecturers and researchers while strengthening those aimed at administrative and technical staff. Although military staff are covered by the diversity plan of the French Ministry of Armed Forces, they will also be included in the scope of all actions.

A 2024-2027 action plan with 5 key pillars

1. Promoting gender parity by ensuring gender-balanced recruitment
2. Ensuring  equal access for women and men to career development and professional responsibilities.
3. Assessing, preventing, and addressing pay gaps between women and men
4. Promoting a healthy work-life balance
5. Preventing and addressign discrimination, harassment and sexual and gender-based violence

 Monitoring and commitment

École Polytechnique is committed to closely monitoring the results of this plan through a staff evaluation survey, which will include questions on discrimination and harassment.

École Polytechnique’s equality policy

École Polytechnique launched a first action plan for professional equality between women and men from 2021 to 2023, fostering a positive momentum towards gender equality. Following its review, some effective actions will be carried over into the new plan.