L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science

Tenth anniversary

The 2008 Laureates are:

Professor Lihadh AL-GAZALI (United Arab Emirates, UAE), Laureate for Africa and the Arab States;
Assistant Professor V. Narry KIM (Republic of Korea), Laureate for Asia-Pacific;
Professor Ada YONATH (Israel), Laureate for Europe;
Professor Ana Belén ELGOYHEN (Argentina), Laureate for Latin America;
Professor Elizabeth BLACKBURN (USA), Laureate for North America.

The L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science recognize five laureates annually, one from each of the five continents. They are conferred to scientists working in life sciences and material sciences in alternating years. With the 2008 Awards in life sciences, a total of 52 women scientists from 26 countries, whose work has improved human well-being, will have been recognized. More

Data on women alumnae of Univ of Chicago Math Dep

 Moon Duchin has recently put together an informal collection of data on women alumnae of the University of Chicago Mathematics Department. The idea was to include all those at any level (undergraduate,  graduate, and faculty) who went on at least one level further in  academic mathematics after leaving Chicago. The main intent was to  track placement patterns. The data contains some very interesting and  unexpected trends, which are discussed  here.

We are grateful to Moon, herself a U of Chicago alumna and  currently
a postdoc at UC Davis, for allowing us to post this
material publicly for the first time.

Caroline Series

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

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.

 

Welcome

EMS Committee on Women and Mathematics has the purpose to work as a fact-finding unit exposing the problems and support the recognition of achievements of women in mathematics. It is directed to take such actions as it seems appropriate to encourage more women to study mathematics at school level, university level, and research level, as well as to support women mathematicians in academic positions.

If you have any suggestions about how to improve the status and everyday life of women mathematicians in the academic world, or if you feel like reporting on your or experiences of other institutions you know, please do not hesitate to contribute by submitting a comment (just click on “Comments“ below), or encourage others to do so.