knowledge (universities, public or private research centres) and women have always been difficult: access to education and … participate to the production of scientific knowledge, women had to get round the institutional barriers by cunning and political … struggles. Today, even though institutional barriers have disappeared, the participation of women to the scientific production …

In France, only 30% of enterprises are founded by women. In 2006, we interviewed 68 women entrepreneurs in Dunkerque … (banks, associations, etc.)? We have stated that even if women largely solicited associations to achieve their project …