Page 16 - 4.2.4.分4-演讲报告4-Akkaya-Gender Equality in Science: What is to be done?

Really why?

Let’s define the problem. The problem is although 50 % of all the population is women, yet…

• based on UNESCO Institute of Statics, less than 30 % of researches are women worldwide.

• The big question is Why?…

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

first Astrophysics of

Ireland and UK discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967
She was robbed of 1974 Nobel Prize

Specifically,
• Scientific society is male,
• dominated by males,

Website of the project: • interpreted by males,
https://gender-gap-in-science.org/ • lack of networking among woman,

• unconscious bias of men and woman discriminating against
woman.
Mahinur S. Akkaya, DLUT, China The 2nd World Science and Technology Development Forum, Women in Science-November 9 th, 2020