Women in Science:The Missing Links

The UNSECO Courier, 2007, Number 2 was devoted to Women in Science

Women love science. The proof: they are holding more and more positions in laboratories and universities. But even if the proportion of women participating in science increases, they are still far from playing on an even field with their male colleagues. The Courier takes an in-depth look at the issues facing female scientists today.

More information you can find on

Women in science: the missing links; The UNESCO courier; Vol.:2; 2007

EWM/EMS Worskhop

This one-day workshop, organized under the auspices of the EMS and EWM, aims at introducing the audience to the topics of the two main women speakers at the European Congress of Mathematics, Christine Bernardi and Matilde Marcolli. Its program will be organized around three to four introductory talks on their research areas, and will end with a social gathering and informal discussions. The speakers at the workshop will include Christine Bernardi and Alina Vdovina.

 

We encourage young women mathematicians to attend this one-day meeting before the Congress itself. It will provide an opportunity to get acquainted with two areas of research represented by two of the main speakers at the ECM, namely applied mathematics (spectral and variational problems) on the one hand and applications of noncommutative geometry (e.g. to quantum field theory and number theory) on the other hand.

 

We draw your attention to the fact that the EMS offers grants to graduate students and postdocs to attend the ECM. Unfortunately the deadline is Nov. 15th, but we encourage you to send in an application even after that date in case it can be accepted because of this late announcement; please explicitly mention in your application that you want to take part in this workshop.

 

Hoping to see you in Amsterdam,

Best wishes,

The organizers,

Colette Guillopé (Femmes et Mathématiques), Frances Kirwan (convenor of EWM), Sylvie Paycha (Coordinator of the EMS committee for women in mathematics)

Anne McLaren Fellowships 2007

Sarah Rees forwarded notice of Anne McLaren Fellowships 2007 to the EWM mailing list

University of Nottingham,

Anne McLaren Fellowships 2007Science,

Engineering and Technology, Medicine

Applications are invited for these prestigious postdoctoral fellowships funded by the University and targeted at excellent women scientists and engineers, under-represented in these subjects, who wish to establish a research career in the UK.

As this scheme offers a recognised first step into an independent research career, candidates must have submitted a PhD and have had no more than four years’ full-time postdoctoral experience by 1 October 2007. The scheme is designed to offer support and flexibility.

Subjects covered: Science, Engineering and Technology, Medicine.

Further details and application forms are available at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ris/html/Anne_McLaren_Fellowship_Information_2007_2008.php. Please quote ref. AMF/07. Closing date: 23 November 2007.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Rebecca Stokes, tel: 0115 846 7408 or Email: Rebecca.Stokes@Nottingham.ac.uk.

For all our vacancies and more about working at the University of Nottingham see: http://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/.

Women & Science, Statistic and Indicators

 

On European Commission web page http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/women/wssi/index_en.html one can find interesting post:

Women & Science

Statistics and Indicators

 

• Exactly how many women are there in European research?
• Are there more women than men?
• How are women distributed across European research?
• Is European research affected by a gender bias?
• Are women interested in different areas than men? Do they go on to work in the fields in which they have studied?
• Can they expect the same rewards and benefits from a scientific career as their male counterparts?
• Are there barriers to women’s productivity within the scientific system?
• Do women achieve and produce more than men?
• Why are women less likely than men to seek research funding?
• How are women scientists regarded by their peers, both male and female?

• Who defines the rules of the scientific game?

Although it is still not possible to answer all of these questions, the following pages contain information that can help us begin to understand the answers. You can download the latest indicators available on the subject of women and science for the 25 EU Member States and the 7 countries associated to the European Union’s 5th and 6th Framework Programmes. If you want to examine these data for your own analysis, you can also download the raw statistics.

Where do these data come from?

For many years, both women scientists and policy makers have been asking for data about women’s participation in the different scientific fields. The need to build indicators is acknowledged in the Commission’s Communication, in two Council’s Resolutions (20 May 1999 and 26 June 2001) and Council Conclusions (18 April 2005), as well as a Resolution of the European Parliament. In order to approach the lack of sex-disaggregated data on scientists, the Commission has developed a double-track strategy:

• The “top-down” approach
• The “bottom-up” approach

The Women and Science Unit in collaboration with the Statistical Correspondents of the Helsinki Group on Women and Science and Eurostat have been collecting data on women scientists for nearly 2 years. These pages contain consolidated statistical information from the cross-national perspective for all available years since 1990 on a variety of themes.