Since 2003, within its mission of supporting companies in developing business, the agency has also informed and mobilized companies against discrimination in hiring and training, together with promoting professional gender equality. The agency has been leading, since 2013, a yearly action of “trade discovery and promotion of gender diversity in companies” financed by the ESF, that supports companies developing gender diversity.
Besides, in 2017, the agency as co-initiator, finalised an Erasmus+ program project called “Gender diversity fosters employment” (mixitedesmetiers.wixsite.com) by producing tools to help convince unemployed women to retrain into promising occupations mainly carried out by men. For 3 years, focusing on one of these promising professions that is programming, the agency has been organising programming initiation sessions, open only to unemployed women, with no previous experience.