About a third (32 percent) of women professors, administrators and other staff say they lack confidence when it comes to financial planning for retirement, compared to 19 percent of men working in higher education, says a new report from Fidelity Investments. Read more...
Bryn Mawr College, a women's institution, announced Monday that it would admit certain groups of transgender students. Bryn Mawr's old policy did not ban transgender applicants, saying only that Bryn Mawr was a women's college and that "how an individual self-identifies in terms of gender, or any changes in self-identification while a student is enrolled here, are personal matters and not something the college tracks." The new policy explicitly welcomes some transgender applicants. Read more...
By Radhika Sanghani. An interactive tool reviewing date from RateMyProfessors.com exposes gender biases in how students describe their teachers. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed. Many professors cringe when they think about the way they are described on Rate My Professors, the popular site used by students to evaluate faculty members. A new tool allows those being rated (or anyone) to see the way students tend to use different words when rating male and female professors - generally to the disadvantage of the latter. More...
Le Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Emplois et les Professionnalisations (Cérep) et ses partenaires organise un colloque qui vise à interroger, au prisme du genre, les intersections et les articulations existantes entre, d’une part, les sphères de l’éducation, de la formation et du travail et, d’autre part, les représentations et les mises en images.
Les notions de « mises en images » et de « représentations » balayent un large spectre d’objets allant du plus abstrait au plus concret. On s’intéressera aux différentes dimensions de la construction de la réalité qui se manifestent tant sous la forme d’images mentales, de représentations sociales, ou encore de stéréotypes que sous celle d’images matérielles telles qu’elles apparaissent dans la littérature, les arts plastiques, les manuels scolaires (schémas,iconographie…) ou dans les classes (affiches, cartes murales, dessins d’élèves…), la presse, le cinéma, la télévision, les publicités, les blogs, mais aussi les arts vivants et du spectacle qui donnent lieu à d’autres sortes de « représentations ». Les mises en images et représentations pourront être analysées tant par rapport à leur contenu et au(x) « message(s) » qu’elles véhiculent, que comme des indicateurs ou des traces d’une certaine construction des réalités sociales en différents temps et lieux ou comme matérialisation de rapports sociaux de domination.
Articles à rendre le 15 mai 2015
Colloque le 28 au 30 octobre 2015
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By Scott Jaschik. Bell hooks started making waves in scholarship long before "Saved by the Bell" became a television hit. She published Ain't I a Woman: Black Women in Feminism, one of her best-known books, in 1981, and she's still publishing today from a base at Berea College. The sitcom aired only from 1989 through 1993 (though it also had some spin-offs). Read more...
By Lucy Ferriss. Gender neutrality, however loudly announced in official pronouncements or in the news, creeps into our own set of norms on little cat feet. In my case, I realized it had made another inroad when I was settling in at a symphony performance and heard the voice over the loudspeaker: Ladies and Gentlemen, please silence your cellphones and other electronic devices. More...
By Casey Fabris. Students have a lot to say. And when they can hide behind anonymity, they’re not afraid to say it.
Recently, students have taken to social-media platforms like Yik Yak to anonymously air gripes against their professors. Often, the conversation is less than productive. In one recent incident at Eastern Michigan University, students in a large lecture course wrote more than 100 demeaning Yik Yak posts about the three female professors who led the class, including sexual remarks and insults about their appearance and teaching. More...
Vous n’avez pas encore rédigé votre Rapport de situation comparée ni signé d’accord en faveur de l’Égalité professionnelle entre les femmes et les hommes ? Ou vous venez de le signer mais n’avez pas encore formalisé de plan d’actions ou ne savez pas par où commencer ?
Opcalia Ile-de-France propose à ses entreprises adhérentes un dispositif « clé en main » qui vous permettra de porter un regard nouveau sur votre structure et de bénéficier d’un accompagnement personnalisé par un consultant partenaire. Voir l'article...
Even in countries with gender inequality, female students often have better grades.
Girls tend to get better grades in reading, math and science than boys, according to a new study that challenges the widely held belief that boys do better in these subjects than girls. More...
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