Nearly one surveyed student asserts to have been a victim of sexual assault since the beginning of schooling in the establishment. The survey also reveals eleven cases of rape or attempts of rape.
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Student holidays where alcohol flows afloat, the isolation of the Saclay plateau, an imbalance between the number of girls and boys (17% of students), a military culture imprint of sexist stereotypes … And a desire to “let go” after working heavily to integrate the most prestigious engineering school in France. This is the context in which sexist and sexual violence with polytechnics, as elsewhere in many large French schools.
The awareness of these excesses, especially since the survey conducted at Centralsupélec at the beginning of September 2021, pushed Polytechnique to carry out its own internal investigation on the subject, at the request of the student associations. The results, to which Le Monde had access, were presented in early March internal. With a significant number of responses (2,100 on a questionnaire sent to 3,400 young people entered at school between 2018 and 2021, all courses confused), it offers unprecedented photography of violence suffered by several students.
Thus, 23% of the interviewes say they were victims of sexual assault during their polytechnic schooling: without their consent, they were touched the breasts, the buttocks, we rubbed themselves or kissed them ; 11% of women who responded to the survey claim to have received insistent sexual proposals “despite their refusal”. Three young people say they were addicted to their knowledge during a student party. And 11 people (including 10 women) claim to have been attempted rape or rape during schooling at the X.
Sexist Culture
“We were aware of four situations that had been reassembled via our dedicated cell. But everything is anonymous: most victims do not wish to give their names or that of their aggressor. The release of speech remains complicated”, regrets The Director General of the School, François Bouchet, who made, as a result of the results of this investigation, a report to the Prosecutor of the Republic.
Since the beginning of his mandate in 2017, he points out that he has taken individual sanctions in many fields: evening prohibitions, days of judgments, obligations of general interest … “We also have dismissed from his functions a military framework, which had inappropriate behavior with young women. It also happened that reinforcement soldiers, who come during the courtstine [the month of military training at the time of the arrival of students on campus], be reported to their hierarchy due to displaced persons to girls. ”
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