Measurement of tW the production cross-section at 13 TeV with CMS

The inclusive cross-section for tW production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV is measured with a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$ collected by the CMS experiment. The measurement is performed in events with one electron and one muon, and exploits kinematic differences between the signal and the dominating $t\bar{t}$ background through the use of multivariate discriminants designed to separate the two processes. The measured cross-section of $\sigma = 63.1 \pm 1.8~({\rm stat}) \pm 6.0~({\rm syst}) \pm 2.1~({\rm lumi})$ pb is in agreement with standard model expectations

Subverting conventional gender-based violence reporting protocols: Clothesline complaints in higher education in Mexico

While international conventions with a gender perspective exist, at national level countries such as Mexico have also developed policies and programmes in favour of women’s access to a life of equality and free of violence. Such policies have been translated into institutional protocols to curb gender violence. Despite these polices, data seem to indicate that violence against women continues (UN Women 2020) and gender inequality persists. This article explores the significance of a social gender activist movement that began in 2019 called “clothesline complaints” in one of the most prestigious universities in Mexico. The article also seeks to assess the impact of this movement in other institutions using a documentary analysis research approach. Results show that the selected institutions reported a large number of complaints regarding gender violence. The article concludes that by adopting unconventional grievances reporting procedures of the “clothesline” rather than the traditional institutional protocols, more cases of gender violence can be revealed. We recommend the adoption of the clothesline approach as well as other novel ways of reporting gender-based violence. The clothesline movement presents an opportunity to re-examine the current gender violence reporting structure in higher education institutions in Mexico. Because of the global nature of gender-based violence, we also consider implications for policy and structural review of gender violence reporting protocols in South Africa and other parts of the world. Of key significance is how to integrate informal gender-based violence reports into the formal protocols of reporting without diminishing the original force of appeal which animate the informal reports

Women in Science and Engineering: The Impact of Gender Equity Policies in Mexican Higher Education

In a globalizing world, Mexico’s higher education system is undergoing significant transformations. One of the more hopeful, positive transformations is the emergence or strengthening of gender equity policies in many education institutions. The equity-oriented policies, packaged in transnational policy spheres, are interpreted and set in motion based on the interplay of national, local and institutional contexts. While this emergent equity-friendly policy environment represents a positive movement for equity, its manifestations and effects remain understudied. Considering that there is at least a policy environment supportive of gender equity, this study examines how gender equity plays out at the ground level. It examines the gender-equity policy environment—its manifestation and effects—in one graduate research department in the most prestigious Polytechnic University in Mexico. Through site observations and interviews with students, professors, and administrators, this research illuminates how gender equity is taken up and experienced by women in this male-dominated environment. The research finds that gender equity has indeed made an intervention at the symbolic or discursive level of the institution. Also there are concrete manifestations, such as the presence of a gender equity office and the hiring of the institution’s first female director. In general, gender equity provoked interest and anxiety in most of the participants interviewed. In interviews and at a public symposium of gender equity, some dominant scripts were repeated that tended to rationalize male dominance, but there were also more transgressive scripts and acknowledgments of the depth of inequity around gender and other social difference in Mexico. Aligned with past research findings and institutional mantras, gender equity was often conceived in terms of ‘access’ and fair admission policies by administration and professors. Women graduate students reported much more directly about the ongoing discrimination within the program that ranged from being seen as less capable than males to more overt sexual harassment and bullying. Further, women who attempted to use the gender equity office to make a complaint were quite cynical about the apparent lack of any action. Finally, this study offers recommendations for the gender program, the Centre of Technology and members of the centre

¿Por qué el crédito al sector productivo fluye en Chile y no en México? algunas explicaciones

72 páginas. Maestría en Economía.Se realiza un análisis comparativo entre el crédito que se otorga al sector productivo en Chile y México, se muestra la influencia que tiene la estructura institucional y mecanismos de regulación en el desempeño del sector financiero y en específico en el financiamiento a la inversión. Con la finalidad de mostrar que las deficiencias en el marco legal e institucional de México, influyen negativamente en la canalización de crédito al sector productivo. Para ello, el trabajo se estructura de la siguiente manera: el capítulo uno aborda las principales consideraciones teóricas respecto a la importancia de las instituciones legales y financieras de un país en el financiamiento de la inversión productiva y por ende su efecto en el crecimiento económico. En el segundo capítulo, se analiza el papel de la regulación, sistema judicial e instituciones financieras, para posteriormente en el capitulo tres, realizar un análisis comparativo del desempeño institucional de ambas economías, Mexicana y Chilena, con el objeto de identificar la incidencia del marco regulatorio y legal en el financiamiento bancario a la inversión productiva