Archive for gender gap
International Day of Woman & Girls in Science
Posted in Kids, pictures, University life with tags DEIA, diversity, Engineering, gender gap, gender imbalance, inclusiveness, International day of women and girls in science, mathematics, Science, STEM, technology, UNESCO, United Nations, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization on February 11, 2026 by xi'an
gender gaps
Posted in Statistics, University life with tags gender gap, Le Monde, machine learning, Nature, PISA, PSL Research University, regression, religions, Science, tribune, Université Paris Dauphine on March 31, 2018 by xi'an
Two of my colleagues [and co-authors] at Dauphine, Elyès Jouini and Clotilde Napp, published a paper in Science last week (and an associated tribune in Le Monde which I spotted first) about explaining differences in national gender inequalities in maths (as measured by PISA) in terms of the degree of overall inequality in the respective countries. Gaps in the highest maths performer sex ratio. While I have no qualm about the dependency or the overall statistical cum machine learning analysis (supported by our common co-author Jean-Michel Marin), and while I obviously know nothing about the topic!, I leisurely wonder at the cultural factor (which may also partly explain for the degree of inequality) when considering that the countries at the bottom of the above graphs are rather religious (and mostly catholic). I also find it most intriguing that the gender gap is consistently reversed when considering higher performer sex ratio for reading, because mastering the language should be a strong factor in power structures and hence differences therein should also lead to inequalities…
Libération [cover]
Posted in Books, pictures with tags #7novembre16h34, gender gap, Liberation, pay gap on November 7, 2016 by xi'anA gap
Posted in pictures, University life with tags gender gap, Université Paris Dauphine on January 25, 2011 by xi'an
A picture sent to me by my colleague Alessandra and reflecting on the gender gap…
