To promote integration of the equal opportunities for woman and man dimension in all policies and activities . Recipe n.8 Identification of the difficulties met by women in their mainstreaming path What Identification of the difficulties met by women in their mainstreaming path What Scientific and innovative Research-action conducted over the French national territory. 5 information centers on women rights took part to the research-action. The aims of the action were the following: better knowing women's paths, weighing the effects of the interventions on individual paths and orientations, knowing women's strategies, finding the obstacles which hamper the women's access to the new jobs and estimating their incidence on the paths. This reaserch-action was conduced on 5 rural and reconverting towns: Besançon, Montauban, Perpignan, Saint-Nazaire and Paris How The reaserch was performed by 2 sociologists, in co-operation with the information centres on women's rights of the East Pyrenees, Doubs, Tarn et Garonne and Saint-Nazaire.Scientific system :Production of the research issuesDevelopment of the guide to the interview Decryptation of audio cassettes and their transcription on paper and information supportSampling compositionProcessing of the materials collected on the territoryMaterials analysisTraining seminar and orientation seminar Iter The objective of this research - carried out within the framework of the NOW REDA project- was to analyse around 50 women's paths over 5 national sites: Besançon, Perpignan, Saint-Nazaire, Montauban, Paris, In practice, the research implied: Interviews performed by the job advisers to the CIDF interested in the research;Analisys of the occupational areas (collection of statistical data and first diagnosis) belonging to each interested CIDF;First evaluation of the reviewed paths (chronological individuation, identification of the great stages of the paths);Interviewing women (50 recorded interviews) on the basis of the guide to the interview.Development of the guide to the interview, collecting 9 issues: the relationship with school, the relationship with parents (and, more specifically, with the female representative of the family), the relationship with job and with the statute of labourers, the relationship with the work place, the relationship with the placement institutions, the relationship with family life, the relationship with Bio-social status of women, the relationship with the labour market and its changes, the relationship with economic resources. How much The allocated budget, with a public and community co-financing, is of around 700.000 EUROS (Occupazione - NOW) Results The reaserch has influenced the daily practice of professional women, that is :Legitimating a more specific access into the life story of women, which is often a sad story;Knowing how to listen, getting a high degree of concentration in order to understand which are the words to be better developed, knowing how to face painful matters with a clinical attitude and without avoiding them, knowing how to ask a delicate question at the right time. Taking the time, playing up to the person's rithm, leaving moments of silence in order to let the woman reflect and self-listen.Having a global vision of the difficulties about employment in the space of one interview only. A better organisation of listening using a number of benchmerks, a greater elasticity due to a greater control of the main theme (guide to the interview)A clinical attitude by the adivisers both towards the conversation and towards the non-verbal aspect of their interviews.The team work allowed the advisers both to appreciate the national size of the network and to notice that all CIDFs make the same work all over France.The reaserch has a positive influence on the partners (ANPE - Employment Bureau), who showed a great interest towards this work and a serious acknowledgement of the role of CIDFs within the framework of the social and economical insertion. References Pascale SAMSON Chargée de mission auprès de la Direction Générale du CNIDFF (National centre of information for women and families) CNIDFF 7 rue du Jura 75013 Paris Tel + 33 1 42171219 - fax n. 33 1 43311581 e-mail : europe@infofemmes.com