| Survey of trained scientific women power |
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| The Women
in Science Panel (WiS) of Indian Academy of Sciences has initiated a
study entitled 'Trained Scientific Woman Power: How Much are we losing
and Why?'. This study aims to track down women who have completed their
PhD in pure and applied sciences, engineering and medicine. It has been observed that although several women students are sufficiently motivated to continue their scientific education up to their Phd. degree but their post-PhD. remain disproportionately low. The reasons have been documented to some extent, but not analysed. The Panel for Women in Science (WiS) of the Indian Academy of Sciences has initiated a project to identify the factors involved in the choice of women with a Ph.D to leave the pursuit of science. This survey is being conducted by a group consisting of women scientists such as Drs. B.K. Anitha, Vineeta Bal, Rohini Godbole, Shobona Sharma and Pratima Sinha. Social scientists Drs. Karuna Chanana(JNU) and N.S Anuradha(IISc) are also participating in the project. For the survey, it is important to interview women who are continuing in a scientific career as well as those who are not. We are therefore compiling a database of women with a Ph.D. degree in Science, Engineering or Medicine. Primarily, we hope that the survey will help us to compile the data of women scientists in India from various sectors mentioned above and find possible reasons for the small number of women scientists in research. The issue of Current Science (25 th August, 2007) contains an to all women who fall within the scope of the database to register. If you should fall within the scope of this database follow the instructions given in the advertisement to . Currently the number of women who have registered with our database stands at . Click here to view the list of To be effective such a study needs to be comparative so as to gain an overall perspective on the situation of women scientists vis-a-vis men scientists. Therefore, we intend to include men scientists for a holistic view of the situation. For this purpose, we invite the participation of Men Scientists in the study. As part of the study, we to all the men scientists with a doctoral degree in science, engineering or medicine, irrespective of whether they may be pursuing an academic or scientific career to with our database by following the instructions given in the appeal. Currently the number of men who have registered with our database stands at . Click here to view the list of We expect the study will give us a comprehensive view of factors responsible for the loss of women scientists in our country. We urge you to help us in this endeavour. DST Task Force on Women in Science. The DST Task Force on Women in Science is maintaining a directory of Indian women who have taken up studies in Science/Agriculture, Engineering and Medicine. The directory provides a resource pool of Women Scientists, Engineers and Doctors who have registered with them. The registrants are not necessarily Ph.D holders and are also those who are pursuing Ph.Ds. More details here. |