By Scott Jaschik. For the first time ever, women make up a majority (50.7 percent) of those enrolling in medical school, according to new data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. This fall, the number of new female medical students increased by 3.2 percent, while the number of new male students declined by 0.3 percent. More...
Gender Trouble
By Elizabeth Redden. A departmental committee told a professor he had to teach Judith Butler in his class in the name of gender balance. He refused. As for Butler, she doesn’t want her work forced on him. More...
The Missing Women
By Colleen Flaherty. Study finds that men speak twice as often as women do at colloquiums, a difference that can't be explained away by rank, speaker pool composition or women's interest in giving talks. More...
Gender Equity Targets Missed
Femmes, hommes, modes d'emploi dans les médias
La prochaine CNMJ (Conférence nationale des métiers du journalisme) se tiendra les 25 et 26 janvier 2018 à la Sorbonne. Elle s'intéressera aux conditions d'emploi des femmes et des hommes dans les médias : représentations, recrutements et carrières, formations avec le soutien des observatoires des métiers de la presse et de l'audiovisuel.
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Lancement du Tour de France de l'égalité

The Gender Equality Tour de France comes to the Council of Europe

Gender equality in employment is still a distant promise in Europe
“This year once again women in Europe effectively worked without pay during the last two months in comparison to men. In addition they continued to face underrepresentation in decision-making bodies and positions. This is a gross injustice and a human rights violation. European states must tackle it much more forcefully than has been the case so far”, said today Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, in his end-of-the-year statement. More...
Madame la mairesse, je vous fais une lettre...
Mer. Où sont les femmes ?
Une étude de France AgiMer fait le point sur la place des femmes dans les secteurs de la pêche et de l'aquaculture en France. Elles sont moins présentes dans la pêche embarquée, représentant 1 % des effectifs pour la pêche au large et 2 % pour la pêche côtière.
Source : http://www.gref-bretagne.com/Actualites/Revue-de-presse/Mer.-Ou-sont-les-femmes