Plan d’égalité des genres 2022 – 2024 (Gender Equality Plan)

Institut Pasteur's Gender Equality Plan (GEP) responds to the European Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) and aims to close the gender gap in governance bodies while building a corporate culture that fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, targeting women employees at the institute.

The GEP is built around six objectives: raising awareness of gender equality and unconscious bias; improving work-life balance; improving gender balance in governing roles; advancing gender equality in recruitment and career progression; embedding a gender dimension in research and innovation; and tackling sexist and sexual misconduct.

Actions include a good-practice guide to sensitise selection committees to unbiased recruitment, thematic Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), mandatory unconscious-bias training for selection-committee members, awareness conferences on the benefits of diversity, equity and inclusion, and dissemination of existing ERG experience.

The plan tracks an indicator of women holding governance positions, with a stated current value of 38.4%, and aims to increase this share; other outputs include the ERGs themselves and a 'Gender Equality Friendly' departmental label.

The institute frames year-on-year growth in the share of women in management positions as the key sign of the plan's success, though the source material does not report an independent evaluation.