Inégalités salariales entre hommes et femmes

How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps

Francesco Mondada, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Background Early exposure to Computer Science (CS) and Computational Thinking (CT) for all is critical to broaden participation and promote equity in the field. But how does the introduction of CS and CT into primary school curricula impact learning, perce ...

2023

Gender, prior knowledge, and the impact of a flipped linear algebra course for engineers over multiple years

Simone Deparis, Roland John Tormey, Cécile Hardebolle, Himanshu Verma

Background Research shows that active pedagogies could play an important role in achieving more equitable outcomes for diverse groups of students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Although flipped classes are a popular active met ...

American Society for Engineering Education2022

Gender-specific alteration of energy balance and circadian locomotor activity in the Crtc1 knockout mouse model of depression

Pierre Magistretti, Jean-Marie Petit, Benjamin Boutrel, Jean-René Cardinaux, Daniel Sciarra

Obesity and depression are major public health concerns, and there is increasing evidence that they share etiological mechanisms. CREB-regulated transcription coactivator 1 (CRTC1) participates in neurobiological pathways involved in both mood and energy b ...

Springer Nature2017

Training on the Job: Behavioral Analysis of Job Interviews in Hospitality

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Jean-Marc Odobez, Laurent Son Nguyen, Skanda Muralidhar, Denise Frauendorfer

First impressions play a critical role in the hospitality industry and have been shown to be closely linked to the behavior of the person being judged. In this work, we implemented a behavioral training framework for hospitality students with the goal of i ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Gender differences in visual perception

Michael Herzog, Christine Mohr, Maya Roinishvili, Albulena Jashari-Shaqiri

Gender differences are well established in cognition and somato-sensation, but there are almost no studies on gender differences in visual perception. One reason is that sample size is often small because effect sizes are large. Small samples are not well ...

2016

Old-age provision: past, present, future

Damir Filipovic, Joël Wagner, Paul Embrechts

This is a summary of the main topics and findings from the Swiss Risk and Insurance Forum 2015. That event gathered experts from academia, insurance industry, regulatory bodies, and consulting companies to discuss the past and current developments and nece ...

Springer Heidelberg2016

Science and Engineering Ph.D. Students’ Career Outcomes, by Gender

Fabiana Visentin, Annamaria Conti

We examine differences in the careers of men and women Ph.D.s from two major European universities. Having performed regression analysis, we find that women are more likely than men to be employed in public administration when the alternatives are either a ...

Public Library of Science2015