Abstract EN:

The Research focuses on the professsional success of women in executive positions who are on career track and manage both teams and projects. The implications of the "Diversity and Equality Between Men and Women In the Workplace" agreement of 08. 03. 2009, concluded by all of the SNCF's trade unions and it's board of directors, comprises the emphasis of our study. Specifically, those areas of the organization where management positions are held predominantly by women. In effect, there has been a 'feminization' with regard to certain jobs, indeed certain areas of profession generating a structural imbalance in the male to female ratio. From this perspective, we are analyzing various processes of gender inequality and segregation, viewed through the prism of gender division in the workplace and existing social climates between the sexes. Identity construction will be the lever that allows for a better understanding of the representation of women's power and their potential as candidates for leadership roles. What is at issue here, for any public sector organization, is linked to its social commitment to improving conditions in the workplace and its capacity to identify current changes in the professional domain, while simultaneously further inquiring into the role of gender norms in contemporary French society.