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Session moderated by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge. Each 30   minute paper is followed by 10   minutes of discussion . Abstract Since 1948, international human rights law has guaranteed a human right to share in science and its benefits (often abbreviated to …

Session moderated by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge. Each 30   minute paper is followed by 10   minutes of discussion. Abstract Preventing gender disparities in mathematics and promoting a more balanced representation of women and men in the fields of science, …

Session moderated by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge. Each 30   minute paper is followed by 10   minutes of discussion. Abstract Sex is defined by genetics  : from the moment of conception, it is the pair of sex chromosomes, XX, that defines a woman, and XY, …

Session moderated by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge. Each 30   minute paper is followed by 10   minutes of discussion. Abstract The immune system serves as a potent rheostat of host physiology, a fundamental function that requires specialized regulation across …

Abstract In modeling, evolutionary phenomena are often analyzed through the prism of partial differential equations, interpreted as a macroscopic description of the problem of interest. However, this classic approach comes up against the problem of model …

Session moderated by Patrick Boucheron. Each 30   minute presentation is followed by 10   minutes of discussion. Abstract There is a population of women who have worked extensively in the world of science, but who have been ignored by the history and …

Session moderated by Patrick Boucheron. Each 30   minute presentation is followed by 10   minutes of discussion. Abstract Drawing on classic theoretical and empirical works in the field of Science and Technology Studies and feminist science criticism, as …

Session moderated by Patrick Boucheron. Each 30   minute presentation is followed by 10   minutes of discussion . Abstract In 1993, Nancy Hopkins measured her desk with a tape measure to prove to her colleagues that women were systematically discriminated …

Session moderated by Patrick Boucheron. Each 30-minute paper is followed by a 10-minute discussion. Abstract The scientific world of the eighteenth   century was still organized on the principle of the "   male enclosure of knowledge   " (Michèle Le …

Session moderated by Patrick Boucheron. Each 30 minute presentation is followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstract When the Académie française was founded, the decision was made to exclude women. At the same time, many educational treatises of the 17th …

Abstract When illustrating printed editions, neo-hioglyphic inscriptions are usually accompanied by a translation. But what if the translation is lacking, as is usually the case with inscriptions on monuments or paintings? The visitor or viewer becomes a …

Session moderated by Françoise Combes. Each 30 minute presentation is followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstract Male rodents were for a long time the only study model in neurobiology, particularly for behavioral studies, with the assumption that …

Session moderated by Françoise Combes. Each 30 minute presentation is followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstract Women are still under-represented in professional mathematics  : for example, 20   % are preparing a doctoral thesis, and 15   % are …

Session moderated by Françoise Combes. Each 30 minute presentation is followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstract The proportion of women in computing, both in industry and academia, is one of the lowest among scientific disciplines. This has not …

Session moderated by Françoise Combes. Each 30 minute presentation is followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstract Correspondence tests have become a reference method in international academic literature on discrimination. In France, as in many other …