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Paris ENS is France’s top school and agregation there is highly competitive. This year, due to COVID they cancelled the orals, only had the (anonymous) written exam. As a result ~80% of successful candidates were women. 8-0. Eighty.

Women usually represent ~40% of ENS agrégés

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mslapointe/status/1296154229695029249

Prof Sandra Lapointe on Twitter

“Paris ENS is France’s top school and agregation there is highly competitive. This year, due to COVID they cancelled the orals, only had the (anonymous) written exam. As a result ~80% of successful candidates were women. 8-0. Eighty. Women usually represent ~40% of ENS agrégés”

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LB: note this is about the entrance exam for humanity studies.

STEM still does not look as good, unfortunately. This year, I counted about 10% and 17% women admitted to the Maths-Physics-Engineering and Computer Science entrance exams of ENS Ulm, respectively.

For some reason, the written exam is heavily gender-biased, but not the oral exam. This has been a consistent trend in the MP/MPI exam of ENS schools for years:
http://www.scei-concours.fr/stat2019/mp.html#rg2
http://www.scei-concours.fr/stat2018/mp.html#rg2
http://www.scei-concours.fr/statistiques/stat2017/mp.html#rg2
http://www.scei-concours.fr/statistiques/stat2016/mp.html#rg2

I mean come on, even the rival Polytechnique military school has less gender bias…