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14 juin 2015

Barnard College Will Admit Transgender Women

HomeBarnard College, the women's college associated with Columbia University, will begin admitting transgender women in fall 2016. The Barnard College Board of Trustees approved the new policy at its June 3 meeting following "a full year of conversations" about the issue. "As expected, a wide range of passionate and deeply held beliefs were discussed and debated," Debora Spar, Barnard's president, and Jolyne Caruso-FitzGerald, chair of the Board of Trustees, said in a statement. Read more...

14 juin 2015

Science, Not Sexism

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. “His attention on your chest may be unwelcome, but you need his attention on your science and his best advice.”
With those words, Alice S. Huang, a senior faculty associate in biology at California Institute of Technology known for her pioneering research in molecular animal virology, and a regular columnist for Science, launched a wave of criticism Monday that resulted in the disappearance and subsequent retraction of her advice piece. Read more...

14 juin 2015

Barnard Joins Growing List of Women’s Colleges That Welcome Transgender Applicants

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . Barnard College announced on Thursday that it would join the fast-growing number of women’s colleges with clarified admissions policies for transgender students. More...

14 juin 2015

Female Scientists Mock Nobel Laureate’s Remarks With #DistractinglySexy Campaign

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/Ticker%20revised%20round%2045.gifBy . Earlier this week the biochemist Richard T. (Tim) Hunt unleashed the following monologue to an unsuspecting audience at a journalism conference in South Korea:

Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them they cry.

Since he made those remarks, which prompted Mr. Hunt to apologize and resign from an honorary professorship at University College London, women in the lab have added a fourth item to the list of things they do: mock Mr. Hunt on Twitter. More...

14 juin 2015

The Academic Advantage: Gender Disparities in Patenting

Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Innovation et des ExportationsEn quarante ans, le taux de brevets détenus par des femmes est passé de 2,7 % à 10,8 %, selon cette étude de PLOS ONE. 
Les chercheurs, dont Vincent Larivière.  Ce lien mène à un site qui n'est peut-être pas soumis au standard gouvernemental sur l'accessibilité. de l'Université de Montréal, ont analysé les disparités entre les sexes en matière de brevets en utilisant les données de 4,6 millions de brevets délivrés au cours des années allant de 1976 à 2013 par le United States Patent and Trade Office.
Dans tous les domaines technologiques, la part des brevets délivrés à des femmes est proportionnellement plus sujette à se produire dans les établissements universitaires que dans les entreprises ou les organismes gouvernementaux. Voir l'article...

14 juin 2015

Women's college Barnard updates policy to admit transgender women

http://static.guim.co.uk/static/c55907932af8ee96c21b7d89a9ebeedb4602fbbf/common/images/logos/the-guardian/news.gifSchool will consider applicants who identify as women after ‘little debate that trans women should be eligible’, school president says. More...

14 juin 2015

Women studying science: share your experiences

http://static.guim.co.uk/static/c55907932af8ee96c21b7d89a9ebeedb4602fbbf/common/images/logos/the-guardian/news.gifBy and . If you’re a female student studying science we’d like to hear your experiences. More...

14 juin 2015

Stories of sexism in science: 'sorry about all the women in this laboratory'

http://static.guim.co.uk/static/c55907932af8ee96c21b7d89a9ebeedb4602fbbf/common/images/logos/the-guardian/news.gifBy. Tim Hunt provoked outrage when he said that female scientists cause trouble in science labs. We speak to women in the field to find out about attitudes they’ve encountered. More...

14 juin 2015

We need a sexual revolution in economics

http://static.guim.co.uk/static/c55907932af8ee96c21b7d89a9ebeedb4602fbbf/common/images/logos/the-guardian/news.gifBy. The lack of female academic economists means everything from the markets to the welfare state is seen though male eyes – this has to change. More...

14 juin 2015

Oxford University to appoint first female vice-chancellor

http://static.guim.co.uk/static/c55907932af8ee96c21b7d89a9ebeedb4602fbbf/common/images/logos/the-guardian/news.gifBy. Nomination of Prof Louise Richardson, expert on terrorist movements and current St Andrews principal, hailed as momentous event in institution’s history. More...

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