Paris’s Elite School Gets a Lesson on Possible Gender Bias
Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.
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Paris’s prestigious postgraduate school Ecole Normale Superieure was in for a surprise this summer when results of its admission exam for literature came out.
A whopping 77% of the successful candidates for the main literature section were women, significantly higher than the 59% average over the past five years, according to ENS admission lists published in the French official gazette.