A Lego set featuring a female astronomer, a female paleontologist, and a female chemist will be released in August.
Fonte: National Geographic
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30 setembro 2017
Reshma Saujani:Ensine às meninas coragem, não perfeição
Estamos criando as meninas para serem perfeitas, e os meninos para serem corajosos, diz Reshma Saujani, fundadora do "Girls Who Code". Saujani assumiu a tarefa de educar as jovens para assumir riscos e aprender a programar, duas habilidades de que elas precisam para fazer a sociedade avançar. Para inovar verdadeiramente, não podemos deixar para trás metade da nossa população, diz ela. "Eu preciso que cada um de vocês diga às jovens que conhecem para sentirem-se bem com a imperfeição".
14 julho 2016
A dificuldade das mulheres em provar competência
SÃO PAULO - Ser competente e demonstrar confiança em relação a isso é o suficiente para ser reconhecido no ambiente de trabalho? Um estudo de pesquisadoras de escolas de negócios europeias aponta que sim, mas só no caso de homens. Para ter influência nas empresas — e assim mais chance de promoção —, profissionais mulheres dependem de mais uma variável: se colegas, chefes ou subordinados gostam delas.
Junto com Natalia Karelaia, do Insead, e Laura Guillén, do European School of Management and Technology, Margarita desenvolveu um estudo com 236 engenheiros de uma multinacional de tecnologia. Na pesquisa, que será apresentada em uma conferência da Academy of Management em agosto, elas coletaram avaliações de desempenho 360° de engenheiros em dois aspectos: se os profissionais eram competentes e se os colegas, chefes e subordinados gostavam deles. Um ano depois, os mesmos engenheiros foram avaliados com relação ao nível de confiança que aparentavam ter e o nível de influência deles na empresa.
Um motivo frequentemente citado para a pouca presença de mulheres em posições de liderança no mundo corporativo é a falta de confiança das profissionais dentro do ambiente de trabalho. “Em um estudo anterior, eu e minhas colegas descobrimos que mulheres costumam avaliar suas habilidades de forma precisa, enquanto os homens tendem a ser superconfiantes em relação às deles. Dessa forma, pode-se pensar, as mulheres são menos confiantes, o que atrapalha suas chances de promoção”, escreve Margarita Mayo, uma das autoras do estudo e professora da espanhola IE Business School, em um artigo na “Harvard Business Review”.
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Os resultados mostram que engenheiros homens que são considerados competentes também são vistos como confiantes e influentes na organização – independentemente de os colegas, chefes ou subordinados gostarem deles. Já as engenheiras mulheres que apresentaram altos níveis de competência só eram vistas como confiantes e influentes quando elas também eram consideradas “afáveis” e seus colegas gostavam delas – por razões não relacionadas à competência profissional.
Para Margarita, os resultados indicam que encorajar mulheres a se mostrarem mais confiantes no ambiente de trabalho — além de apresentarem competência — não é suficiente para aumentar a influência delas nas organizações. “A competência dos homens se traduz diretamente em uma imagem de confiança, independentemente de os outros gostarem deles ou não. Aos mulheres, por outro lado, só conseguem ser beneficiadas pela competência quando aqueles ao seu redor gostam delas”, escrevem as autoras no estudo.
Fonte: Aqui
21 novembro 2015
Robyn Stein Deluca: A boa notícia sobre a TPM
Todo mundo sabe que a maioria das mulheres enlouquecem um pouco antes de ficarem menstruadas, que os hormônios reprodutivos fazem com que suas emoções variem drasticamente. Porém, há pouco consenso científico sobre a síndrome pré-menstrual. "A ciência não concorda sobre a definição, causa, tratamento ou mesmo a existência da TPM", diz a psicóloga Robyn Stein Deluca. Ela explora o que sabemos e o que não sabemos sobre isso, e porque este mito popular tem persistido.
05 setembro 2015
Jimmy Carter: Porque acredito que os maus-tratos de mulheres seja a principal violação dos direitos humanos
Com sua peculiar determinação, o ex-presidente dos EUA, Jimmy Carter, mergulha em três razões inesperadas por que os maus-tratos de mulheres e meninas continua se manifestando tanto e em tantas partes do mundo, tanto em países desenvolvidos quanto em desenvolvimento. A razão mais contundente que ele dá? "Em geral, os homens não dão a mínima."
21 junho 2015
A menstruação realmente deixa as mulheres com o humor instável?
Do Periods Actually Make Women Moody? Ft. iiSuperwomanii
Opção de legenda em espanhol.Leituras adicionais:
Evaluation of Psychological Symptoms in Premenstrual Syndrome using PMR Technique
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
Premenstrual syndrome and beyond: lifestyle, nutrition, and personal facts.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25...
Progesterone selectively increases amygdala reactivity in women.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17...
Is catechol-o-methyltransferase gene polymorphism a risk factor in the development of premenstrual syndrome?http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25...
Effect of treatment with ginger on the severity of premenstrual syndrome symptoms.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24...
Epidemiology of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Studyhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
The effects of 8 weeks of regular aerobic exercise on the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome in non-athlete girls.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23...
08 março 2015
Educação: Meninas deixando os meninos pra trás
It is a problem that would have been unimaginable a few decades ago.
Until the 1960s boys spent longer and went further in school than girls,
and were more likely to graduate from university. Now, across the rich
world and in a growing number of poor countries, the balance has tilted
the other way. Policymakers who once fretted about girls’ lack of
confidence in science now spend their time dangling copies of “Harry
Potter” before surly boys. Sweden has commissioned research into its
“boy crisis”. Australia has devised a reading programme called “Boys,
Blokes, Books & Bytes”. In just a couple of generations, one gender
gap has closed, only for another to open up.
The reversal is laid out in a report published on March 5th by the OECD, a Paris-based rich-country think-tank. Boys’ dominance just about endures in maths: at age 15 they are, on average, the equivalent of three months’ schooling ahead of girls. In science the results are fairly even. But in reading, where girls have been ahead for some time, a gulf has appeared. In all 64 countries and economies in the study, girls outperform boys. The average gap is equivalent to an extra year of schooling.
The OECD deems literacy to be the most important skill that it
assesses, since further learning depends on it. Sure enough, teenage
boys are 50% more likely than girls to fail to achieve basic proficiency
in any of maths, reading and science (see chart 1). Youngsters in this
group, with nothing to build on or shine at, are prone to drop out of
school altogether.
To see why boys and girls fare so differently in the classroom, first
look at what they do outside it. The average 15-year-old girl devotes
five-and-a-half hours a week to homework, an hour more than the average
boy, who spends more time playing video games and trawling the internet.
Three-quarters of girls read for pleasure, compared with little more
than half of boys. Reading rates are falling everywhere as screens draw
eyes from pages, but boys are giving up faster. The OECD found that,
among boys who do as much homework as the average girl, the gender gap
in reading fell by nearly a quarter.
Once in the classroom, boys long to be out of it. They are twice as likely as girls to report that school is a “waste of time”, and more often turn up late. Just as teachers used to struggle to persuade girls that science is not only for men, the OECD now urges parents and policymakers to steer boys away from a version of masculinity that ignores academic achievement. “There are different pressures on boys,” says Mr Yip. “Unfortunately there’s a tendency where they try to live up to certain expectations in terms of [bad] behaviour.”
Boys’ disdain for school might have been less irrational when there were plenty of jobs for uneducated men. But those days have long gone. It may be that a bit of swagger helps in maths, where confidence plays a part in boys’ lead (though it sometimes extends to delusion: 12% of boys told the OECD that they were familiar with the mathematical concept of “subjunctive scaling”, a red herring that fooled only 7% of girls). But their lack of self-discipline drives teachers crazy.
Perhaps because they can be so insufferable, teenage boys are often marked down. The OECD found that boys did much better in its anonymised tests than in teacher assessments. The gap with girls in reading was a third smaller, and the gap in maths—where boys were already ahead—opened up further. In another finding that suggests a lack of even-handedness among teachers, boys are more likely than girls to be forced to repeat a year, even when they are of equal ability.
What is behind this discrimination? One possibility is that teachers mark up students who are polite, eager and stay out of fights, all attributes that are more common among girls. In some countries, academic points can even be docked for bad behaviour. Another is that women, who make up eight out of ten primary-school teachers and nearly seven in ten lower-secondary teachers, favour their own sex, just as male bosses have been shown to favour male underlings. In a few places sexism is enshrined in law: Singapore still canes boys, while sparing girls the rod.
Some countries provide an environment in which boys can do better. In Latin America the gender gap in reading is relatively small, with boys in Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru trailing girls less than they do elsewhere. Awkwardly, however, this nearly always comes with a wider gender gap in maths, in favour of boys. The reverse is true, too: Iceland, Norway and Sweden, which have got girls up to parity with boys in maths, struggle with uncomfortably wide gender gaps in reading. Since 2003, the last occasion when the OECD did a big study, boys in a few countries have caught up in reading and girls in several others have significantly narrowed the gap in maths. No country has managed both.
Girls’ educational dominance persists after school. Until a few
decades ago men were in a clear majority at university almost everywhere
(see chart 2), particularly in advanced courses and in science and
engineering. But as higher education has boomed worldwide, women’s
enrolment has increased almost twice as fast as men’s. In the OECD women
now make up 56% of students enrolled, up from 46% in 1985. By 2025 that
may rise to 58%.
Even in the handful of OECD countries where women are in the minority
on campus, their numbers are creeping up. Meanwhile several, including
America, Britain and parts of Scandinavia, have 50% more women than men
on campus. Numbers in many of America’s elite private colleges are more
evenly balanced. It is widely believed that their opaque admissions
criteria are relaxed for men.
The feminisation of higher education was so gradual that for a long time it passed unremarked. According to Stephan Vincent-Lancrin of the OECD, when in 2008 it published a report pointing out just how far it had gone, people “couldn’t believe it”.
Women who go to university are more likely than their male peers to graduate, and typically get better grades. But men and women tend to study different subjects, with many women choosing courses in education, health, arts and the humanities, whereas men take up computing, engineering and the exact sciences. In mathematics women are drawing level; in the life sciences, social sciences, business and law they have moved ahead.
Social change has done more to encourage women to enter higher education than any deliberate policy. The Pill and a decline in the average number of children, together with later marriage and childbearing, have made it easier for married women to join the workforce. As more women went out to work, discrimination became less sharp. Girls saw the point of study once they were expected to have careers. Rising divorce rates underlined the importance of being able to provide for yourself. These days girls nearly everywhere seem more ambitious than boys, both academically and in their careers. It is hard to believe that in 1900-50 about half of jobs in America were barred to married women.
So are women now on their way to becoming the dominant sex? Hanna Rosin’s book, “The End of Men and the Rise of Women”, published in 2012, argues that in America, at least, women are ahead not only educationally but increasingly also professionally and socially. Policymakers in many countries worry about the prospect of a growing underclass of ill-educated men. That should worry women, too: in the past they have typically married men in their own social group or above. If there are too few of those, many women will have to marry down or not at all.
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The reversal is laid out in a report published on March 5th by the OECD, a Paris-based rich-country think-tank. Boys’ dominance just about endures in maths: at age 15 they are, on average, the equivalent of three months’ schooling ahead of girls. In science the results are fairly even. But in reading, where girls have been ahead for some time, a gulf has appeared. In all 64 countries and economies in the study, girls outperform boys. The average gap is equivalent to an extra year of schooling.
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Once in the classroom, boys long to be out of it. They are twice as likely as girls to report that school is a “waste of time”, and more often turn up late. Just as teachers used to struggle to persuade girls that science is not only for men, the OECD now urges parents and policymakers to steer boys away from a version of masculinity that ignores academic achievement. “There are different pressures on boys,” says Mr Yip. “Unfortunately there’s a tendency where they try to live up to certain expectations in terms of [bad] behaviour.”
Boys’ disdain for school might have been less irrational when there were plenty of jobs for uneducated men. But those days have long gone. It may be that a bit of swagger helps in maths, where confidence plays a part in boys’ lead (though it sometimes extends to delusion: 12% of boys told the OECD that they were familiar with the mathematical concept of “subjunctive scaling”, a red herring that fooled only 7% of girls). But their lack of self-discipline drives teachers crazy.
Perhaps because they can be so insufferable, teenage boys are often marked down. The OECD found that boys did much better in its anonymised tests than in teacher assessments. The gap with girls in reading was a third smaller, and the gap in maths—where boys were already ahead—opened up further. In another finding that suggests a lack of even-handedness among teachers, boys are more likely than girls to be forced to repeat a year, even when they are of equal ability.
What is behind this discrimination? One possibility is that teachers mark up students who are polite, eager and stay out of fights, all attributes that are more common among girls. In some countries, academic points can even be docked for bad behaviour. Another is that women, who make up eight out of ten primary-school teachers and nearly seven in ten lower-secondary teachers, favour their own sex, just as male bosses have been shown to favour male underlings. In a few places sexism is enshrined in law: Singapore still canes boys, while sparing girls the rod.
Some countries provide an environment in which boys can do better. In Latin America the gender gap in reading is relatively small, with boys in Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru trailing girls less than they do elsewhere. Awkwardly, however, this nearly always comes with a wider gender gap in maths, in favour of boys. The reverse is true, too: Iceland, Norway and Sweden, which have got girls up to parity with boys in maths, struggle with uncomfortably wide gender gaps in reading. Since 2003, the last occasion when the OECD did a big study, boys in a few countries have caught up in reading and girls in several others have significantly narrowed the gap in maths. No country has managed both.
Onwards and upwards
The feminisation of higher education was so gradual that for a long time it passed unremarked. According to Stephan Vincent-Lancrin of the OECD, when in 2008 it published a report pointing out just how far it had gone, people “couldn’t believe it”.
Women who go to university are more likely than their male peers to graduate, and typically get better grades. But men and women tend to study different subjects, with many women choosing courses in education, health, arts and the humanities, whereas men take up computing, engineering and the exact sciences. In mathematics women are drawing level; in the life sciences, social sciences, business and law they have moved ahead.
Social change has done more to encourage women to enter higher education than any deliberate policy. The Pill and a decline in the average number of children, together with later marriage and childbearing, have made it easier for married women to join the workforce. As more women went out to work, discrimination became less sharp. Girls saw the point of study once they were expected to have careers. Rising divorce rates underlined the importance of being able to provide for yourself. These days girls nearly everywhere seem more ambitious than boys, both academically and in their careers. It is hard to believe that in 1900-50 about half of jobs in America were barred to married women.
So are women now on their way to becoming the dominant sex? Hanna Rosin’s book, “The End of Men and the Rise of Women”, published in 2012, argues that in America, at least, women are ahead not only educationally but increasingly also professionally and socially. Policymakers in many countries worry about the prospect of a growing underclass of ill-educated men. That should worry women, too: in the past they have typically married men in their own social group or above. If there are too few of those, many women will have to marry down or not at all.
Continua aqui
10 dezembro 2014
Natura
Segundo a revista Época desta semana, a Natura tem como meta 50% dos cargos de chefia serem ocupados por mulheres até 2020.
03 agosto 2014
Ziauddin Yousafzai: Minha filha, Malala
O educador paquistanês Ziauddin Yousafzai lembra o mundo sobre uma simples verdade que muitos não querem ouvir: mulheres e homens merecem oportunidades iguais na educação, autonomia e independência. Ele conta histórias de sua própria vida e de sua filha, Malala, que foi baleada pelo Taliban em 2012, simplesmente por se atrever a ir à escola. “Por que a minha filha é tão forte?”, pergunta Yousafzai. “Porque eu não cortei suas asas.”
Da Companhia das Letras, o livro "Eu sou Malala" é sensacional.
13 junho 2014
Cientistas Lego
The 84-year-old toy brand releases its first all-female scientists minifigure set this summer.
A Lego set featuring a female astronomer, a female paleontologist, and a female chemist will be released in August.
Fonte: National Geographic
A Lego set featuring a female astronomer, a female paleontologist, and a female chemist will be released in August.
Fonte: National Geographic
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Angela Patton: Um baile para pais e filhas ... na prisão
Um vídeo emocionante sobre a importância dos pais na vida das meninas de suas vidas.
Através do Camp Diva, Angela Patton ajuda jovens meninas e seus pais a permanecerem ligados e participando da vida uns dos outros. Mas e quanto à meninas cujos pais não podem estar presente -- porque estão na prisão? Patton conta a história de um baile para pais e filhas muito especial.
Através do Camp Diva, Angela Patton ajuda jovens meninas e seus pais a permanecerem ligados e participando da vida uns dos outros. Mas e quanto à meninas cujos pais não podem estar presente -- porque estão na prisão? Patton conta a história de um baile para pais e filhas muito especial.
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