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Duration : 2017-2019, supported beyond 2019.
The project was supported by Internatioanl Science council (ISC) in the initial phase (2017-2019).
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A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences – How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?
IUBS is one of the ten partners in the project with the title “A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?”
Rationale
Mathematical and natural sciences have long and honorable traditions of participation by highly creative women contributors. However, the percentages of women scientists remain shockingly low and there is a significant gender gap at all levels between women and men. Barriers to achievement by women persist, especially in developing countries.
Objectives
The project will produce sound data to support the choices of interventions that ICSU and member unions can feasibly undertake. It will provide evidence for informed decisions, including trends – since the situation for women continues to change around the world, with some negative developments – and will provide easy access to materials proven to be useful in encouraging girls and young women to study and work in these fields. Regional information about careers, jobs and salaries will be provided. The Joint global survey is planned to reach 45,000 respondents in more than 130 countries using at least 10 languages, while the Joint study on publication patterns will analyze comprehensive metadata sources corresponding to publications of more than 500,000 scientists since 1970. Contrasts and common ground across regions and cultures, less developed and highly developed countries, men and women, mathematical and natural sciences, will be highlighted.
Downloadable Book
All the finding, conclusions and recommendations of the project are now available as a downloadable book. More information is available here.`
Partner organisations in the Gender Gap project
International Mathematical Union (IMU)
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Gender in Science, Innovation, Technology and Engineering (GenderInSite)
International Union for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST)
Organization of Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)
"Gender Gap in Science" Book
All the findings, conclusions and recommendationf of the “A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences – How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?” project are now available as a downloadable book. The preliminary version of the book is available here. It contains a set of Recommendations for Instructor and Parents, for Local Organizations and for Scientific Unions.
The results of findings of the surveys and studies done via this project were presented in a recent conference held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy in November 2019. They were also disucssed in a recent event of the celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2020, which was co-organized by UNESCO on 7th February 2020.
More information about the book can be found here.
