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22 décembre 2013

Everybody Must Get Stoned

By UD. Revelation of gender segregation at public events in British universities should make Americans that much more vigilant about threats to equality in their own universities.  We are not yet where the British are - we do not yet have official university bodies counseling gender apartheid - but we could certainly get there. How to avoid the upheaval on the subject in England (in which the prime minister has had to step in to remind that country's universities what separate but equal means), the general outrage with the practice of making women sit in the backs of public meeting rooms, and in many cases forcing them to shut up?  How does a practice like that develop in a secular democratic culture? 
It develops when liberal democracies lose their taste for defending foundational values. Read more...

21 décembre 2013

British Group Withdraws Guidance on Gender Segregation

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgUniversities U.K. has withdrawn controversial guidance it released last month on gender segregation at “ultra-orthodox” religious events on campus after coming under criticism from the prime minister’s office. The guidance, which was intended to help British Universities balance their legal responsibility to protect freedom of speech while also meeting the requirements of nondiscrimination law, said that in regards to a hypothetical case study in which an outside religious speaker requested seating segregated by gender, “a balance of interests is most likely to be achieved if it is possible to offer attendees both segregated and non-segregated seating areas." Read more...

16 décembre 2013

Why It Matters To Think about Gender and Technology

http://www.hastac.org/files/imagecache/Small/hastac-icon.jpgBy Cathy Davidson. There's a parody/hoax happening on Bitbucket where a simplistic redaction of feminism conjoined with a lot of fake code is being put up to tempt the naive, I assume, to create a "feminist" programming language that will turn out to be bogus, a la the infamous hoax perpetuated against Lacanian critical theory long ago.  It's a trap, I gather, so that anyone who participates will be revealed to be silly, uninformed, and the whole enterprise fraudulent.  Really? Is that the best one can do with a serious issue that most of the world realizes deserves serious debate?  Personally, I'd avoid any part of this conversation that isn't a respectful engagement. Caveat emptor.   The mudslinging and name calling and reductionism are not what Ari Schlesinger's posts on feminism and programming (either the original or the follow up) are about. More...

15 décembre 2013

New study says policies to promote work of women academics aren’t wholly successful

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQWMTBx0CPzMFK637Zb6AgNbjhxfVRtTVkrwKoq4ZPL2p18KKWOEwB3AWIBy Marie Lambert-Chan. Researchers compare research output of women academics with men in many disciplines and countries. 
A new study published in the journal Nature has found that in the majority of disciplines, women produce fewer scientific articles than do their male counterparts. This is the case in most countries, with the exception of Lithuania, Ukraine, Macedonia and Turkmenistan. Moreover, fewer female academics are involved in international research projects, and their articles are cited less often, even when they are the lead author. More...

15 décembre 2013

Toying with Gender

By Laura Tropp. I’ve been following the new Goldiblox products, which encourage girls to play games that promise to foster science and engineering skills. Sheryl Sandberg is telling me (through national media) that I should let my daughters play video games. On the other hand, critics are holding the toy industry to task for creating “girly” science products. Read more...

15 décembre 2013

UUK gender segregation case study withdrawn

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/magazine/graphics/logo.pngBy Jack Grove. A controversial case study that aimed to help guide universities on gender segregation at events featuring Islamic speakers has been withdrawn after David Cameron waded into the row over Universities UK’s advice. The prime minister said universities should not be able to separate men and women at the request of guest speakers, a Downing Street spokesman said on 13 December. His comments came amid growing criticism of legal advice issued by UUK last month, which says a speaker’s right to religious expression may be violated if a request to segregate an audience is not allowed for in some way. Read more...

15 décembre 2013

Gender segregation guidelines to be reviewed as David Cameron steps into row for the first time

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPxnNUZkzq1IINmqwJMRe0Mx9jmcJPvZ89WaflkoXFnHo0R2jfVuceEAwwBy David Barrett. Universities UK announces it will work with the equality watchdog to re-write its controversial gender segregation guidance as the Prime Minister's spokesman says it should not be allowed. Controversial guidelines which endorsed gender segregation at British universities are to be reviewed after a massive public backlash. Universities UK (UUK), which last month said Muslim societies and other groups were entitled to practice gender segregation at public meetings on campus, said it would work with the equalities watchdog to look again at its guidance. Read more...

15 décembre 2013

Bibliometrics: Global gender disparities in science

Gender mapBy Vincent Larivière, Chaoqun Ni, Yves Gingras, Blaise Cronin & Cassidy R. Sugimoto. Despite many good intentions and initiatives, gender inequality is still rife in science. Although there are more female than male undergraduate and graduate students in many countries there are relatively few female full professors, and gender inequalities in hiring, earnings, funding, satisfaction and patentin persist. 
One focus of previous research has been the 'productivity puzzle'. Men publish more papers, on average, than women, although the gap differs between fields and subfields. Women publish significantly fewer papers in areas in which research is expensive, such as high-energy physics, possibly as a result of policies and procedures relating to funding allocations. Women are less likely to participate in collaborations that lead to publication and are much less likely to be listed as either first or last author on a paper. There is no consensus on the reasons for these gender differences in research output and collaboration — whether it is down to bias, childbearing and rearing, or other variables. More...

15 décembre 2013

Diversification des choix professionnels

http://www.adef06.org/resources/ARRIERE+PLAN.jpgLa répartition des hommes et des femmes par métiers : une baisse de la ségrégation depuis 30 ans

Dares Analyses - 2013-079  La répartition des hommes et des femmes par métiers

« Les femmes et les hommes n’exercent pas les mêmes métiers. Cette « ségrégation professionnelle », qui se réfère à la mesure d’une distance entre les répartitions des hommes et des femmes selon les métiers, peut être mesurée par l’indice de dissimilarité de Duncan et Duncan (ID).

Selon celui-ci, en 2011 il faudrait qu’un peu plus de la moitié des femmes (ou des hommes) changent de métier pour aboutir à une répartition égalitaire des femmes et des hommes dans les différents métiers…. »

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15 décembre 2013

La répartition des hommes et des femmes par métiers

Abonnez-vous aux avis de parution de la DaresDares Analyses-Dares Indicateurs 2013-079, décembre 2013. Une baisse de la ségrégation depuis 30 ans 
Les femmes et les hommes n’exercent pas les mêmes métiers. Cette « ségrégation professionnelle », qui se réfère à la mesure d’une distance entre les répartitions des hommes et des femmes selon les métiers, peut être mesurée par l’indice de dissimilarité de Duncan et Duncan (ID). Selon celui-ci, en 2011 il faudrait qu’un peu plus de la moitié des femmes (ou des hommes) changent de métier pour aboutir à une répartition égalitaire des femmes et des hommes dans les différents métiers. 
La ségrégation professionnelle entre les femmes et les hommes est plus importante pour les jeunes, les titulaires de CAP-BEP, les parents de trois enfants ou plus et les personnes de nationalité étrangère. Elle est également plus forte en province qu’en Ile-de-France, dans le secteur privé que dans le secteur public. 
Durant les trente dernières années, l’indice de ségrégation a diminué de 4 points en France, passant de 56 en 1983 à 52 en 2011. Cette évolution de la ségrégation est imputable à un nombre limité de métiers. Le recul de la part dans l’emploi de métiers très féminins tels que les agents d’entretien, les secrétaires et les ouvriers non qualifiés du textile et du cuir a fortement contribué à réduire la ségrégation au cours des trois dernières décennies. Le développement de la mixité dans des métiers très qualifiés comme les cadres de la fonction publique et les professionnels de l’information et de la communication a également participé à cette baisse. Au contraire, la croissance des métiers d’aide à la personne et de la santé, pour la plupart largement féminisés, a renforcé la ségrégation.

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