Gender

This paper was originaly published on tandfonline.com   While Marie Curie’s unique presence among 29 male scientists at the 1927 Solvay Conference underscores the historical gender gap in science, the persistent underrepresentation of women in authorship of scientific publications – particularly in Africa and the Global South – highlights the enduring challenge of achieving gender equality in the scientific community. African women scientists represent 31.1% of the scientific comm ...

Ce récit a été initialement publié dans l'ouvrage Le leadership féminin au Maroc : De l’invisibilité à la visibilité   Si le combat des femmes marocaines a une histoire, et si des figures féminines emblématiques ont marqué par leur bravoure, leur diplomatie ou leur talent l’histoire du Maroc, il n’en demeure pas moins que cette histoire illustre reste méconnue. L’Indépendance du Maroc s’est accompagnée d’une ouverture prometteuse pour l’émancipation de la femme, et le geste1 libé ...

This Paper was originally published on sciencedirect.com The gender gap in education has been a significant concern for Moroccan policymakers and researchers, but the quantitative measurement of this gap has often been overlooked. This study specifically examines the gender gap in academic achievement in reading and mathematics at both the national and residential levels. The objective is to identify the factors that influence gender performance differences and their magnitude. To ...

Greater female participation in the labor market and in international trade have been recognized as important drivers for economic growth and essential targets in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, achieving both targets simultaneously will be difficult, if not impossible, in most Middle East and North African (MENA) countries without additional policies to eliminate the remarkably high levels of gender inequality in the labor market. I ...