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Not all the countries are the same! CUBA

TWAS Fellow Lilliam Margarita Alvarez Díaz in an interview when talking about the important role

of women in science in Cuba says;

“Women constitute nearly 30% of the membership of the Cuban Academy of Sciences where she

serves as the executive secretary”.

This compares to 6% in the Chinese Academy of Sciences

and 10% in the United States' National Academy of Sciences

Physicist having earned a MSc degree in nuclear physics in "They have even reached the 50% threshold in engineering, historically a domain reserved for
1976 from the University of Havana and a PhD in physics
and mathematics from the USSR Academy of Sciences'
Computer Centre in the former Soviet Union in 1989 males. The two disciplines that are exceptions are mathematics, where just 10% of the researchers
are female, and physics, where only 5% are."

She attributes these favourable statistics to the principles of social inclusion and gender equity established during and after the Cuban Revolution in the early

1960s. "No special privileges were given to Cuban women who were interested in science. Instead they were provided the opportunity to choose the careers

they wanted and they were largely assured that the measure of their success would be determined by the degree of their talent and dedication.”

• No affirmitive action.

• Just a different and better sociopolitical system!

Mahinur S. Akkaya, DLUT, China The 2nd World Science and Technology Development Forum, Women in Science-November 9 th, 2020