RésuméIn this article, we propose to discuss the assumption that men are more likely to undertake and succeed in an academic career because the requirements of professional success in this occupation are compatible with normative gender assumptions, particularly that of fullling a male breadwinner or main household earner role, implying reduced domestic and care commitments. Switzerland oers a particularly interesting case for this study, because of the combination of the specic structure of academic careers, the characteristics of the non-academic labour market and the dominant gender regime. We will show that, in this particular context, the aspirations of postdocs to remain in academic employment or to look for non-academic jobs are directly related to their position within the domestic division of labour and to their personal and family circumstances.However, this does not necessarily lead to a clear-cut divide between work-committed men, who "succeed" (and stay), and care-committed women who "fail" to make it up the academic career ladder (and leave). Our results suggest that the situation is more complex and requires a subtle distinction between dierent ideal-types of post-doctoral experiences that do not always cut neatly across gender lines.
Abstract. The Thymio II robot was designed to be used by teachers in their classrooms for a wide range of activities and at all levels of the curriculum, from very young children to the end of high school. Although the educationally oriented design of this innovative robot was successful and made it possible to distribute more than 800 Thymio robots in schools with a large majority in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, it was not sufficient to significantly raise the number of teachers using robot technology in their teaching after three years of commercialization. After an introduction and a first section on the design of this educational robot, this paper presents some results of a sociological analysis of the benefits and blockages identified by teachers in using robots, or not, with their pupils.
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