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Automotive News Europe, December, 2003
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Byline: Sylviane de Saint-Seine
Women continue to hold a limited number of top positions in the auto industry.
The achievements of those who make it, such as Renault purchasing chief Odile Desforges, named 2003 Woman of the Year by Automotive News Europe, are all the more remarkable.
There is hope for the future, however, as engineering schools admit more female students.
At Ecole Centrale de Paris, one of France's top engineering schools, only 2 percent of students were women when Desforges attended. Now 15 percent of students are female.
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