Isabelle Collet

Isabelle Collet (born 17 March 1969 Charleville-Mézières) is a French computer scientist and professor of education at the University of Geneva. She is interested in gender issues and discrimination against women in computer science and the natural sciences .

Life

In 1991, Isabelle Collet obtained a degree in digital image processing . In 2005, she defended her doctorate at the University of Paris-Nanterre in educational sciences under the supervision of Nicole Mosconi, entitled "The Masculinization of Computer Science: Knowledge, Power, and Gender." In 2006, she published her dissertation, and was awarded the Marcelle Blum Fellowship from the Académie des sciences morales et politiques.

She is an associate professor of educational sciences at the University of Geneva and heads the research team Genre – Intersectional Rapports, Educational Relations (G-RIRE).

She studies the number of women in computer science which has declined dramatically since the late 1970s.^[1] In her research on discrimination against women in science and technology, she has addressed issues of coeducation of boys and girls and equality in educational sciences.^[2]

In 2012, she founded the Association for Research on Gender in Education and Training (ARGEF).^[3] In 2017, she founded the journal GEF: Genre, Education, Education .^[4]

Works

Collet, Isabelle (2006). L'informatique a-t-elle un sexe? (in French). Editions L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-296-01480-0. ^[5]^[6]
Collet, Isabelle (2013-10-01). "Des garçons « immatures » et des filles qui « aiment ça » ?". Recherches & éducations (9). OpenEdition: 27–41. doi:10.4000/rechercheseducations.1722. ISSN 1969-0622.
Collet, Isabelle; Mosconi, Nicole (2010-06-01). "Les informaticiennes : de la dominance de classe aux discriminations de sexe ?". Nouvelles Questions Féministes. 29 (2). CAIRN: 100–113. doi:10.3917/nqf.292.0100. ISSN 0248-4951. Retrieved 2025-03-24.