In those “classes préparatoires” girls represent 75.6 percent of the literary section, 55 percent of the economic section and 30.4 percent of the scientific section. Indeed, even though women now represent half of business school students, they constitute only 26.8 percent in engineering schools. In universities, women made up 56.9 percent of students in 2007–2008, but here again they are unevenly represented among the various fields.