Analysis of women's participation in science: a case study about the Exact and Earth Sciences area in Brazil
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Women's participation in science. Scientific production. Exact and Earth Sciences.Abstract
In the last decades, several studies on women's participation in
science have been conducted and are used to identify women's participation and
production, as well as the basis for the development of scientific policies to
encourage and value women in science. The present study evaluated the
scientific production of more than 40,000 Brazilian PhDs who work in the area
of Exact and Earth Sciences, and concluded that: (1) men's participation is
considerably higher than women’s in almost all the subareas analyzed; (2) there
is a growth in the presence of women over time; (3) the percentage of women's
publications is slightly lower than their percentage of participation.
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