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Very Few Women Physics Professors in India
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Why It Is -Still- Difficult to Be a Woman in Science by Shobhana Narasimhan
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- 1 Date: Wed, 26 February 2020, 14:30 to
- 2 Why it is still difficult to be a women in science
- 3 Life Was Not Easy for Marie Curie
- 4 Life Was Not Easy for Emmy Noether
- 5 Kampala Sohonie
- 6 Why is it difficult being a woman in science?
- 7 Few in Number
- 8 Historically, the number of women in science has been low
- 9 The world over, women in science are in a minority
- 10 You may be surprised by some of the numbers
- 11 The Enigma of India: 1
- 12 The Enigma of India: 2
- 13 The Enigma of India: 3
- 14 Percentage of Scientists who are Women
- 15 Very Few Women Physics Professors in India
- 16 Pressures due to Family Responsibilities
- 17 Societal & Familial Pressures
- 18 'Leaky Pipeline' in the USA
- 19 'Waterfall' in India
- 20 Breaks in Education & Career among women in India
- 21 Reasons for Break in Career
- 22 Becoming parent affects career progression: more so for women than men
- 23 Women scientists do most of the housework!
- 24 The Two-Body Problem
- 25 Age Limits for Jobs
- 26 Productivity Gap
- 27 Nepotism and sexism in peer-review
- 28 Science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students
- 29 A Riddle
- 30 A Confession
- 31 Implicit Bias
- 32 Gender Stereotyping Starts Early!
- 33 Lack of Recognition - Top Science Administrators in India are almost all Male
- 34 Women in Science Academies
- 35 Nobel Prizes to Women
- 36 Bhatnagar Prizes to Women
- 37 Jocelyn Bell-Burnell
- 38 Isolation Lack of Peer Group & Mentorship
- 39 Being the only Woman in the Room... Still Happens!
- 40 The Importance of Informal Networks
- 41 Hostile Work Environment
- 42 "Boys will be boys..."
- 43 The Chilly Climate
- 44 Rosalind Franklin & Misogyny
- 45 Sir Aaron Klug on Rosalind Franklin
- 46 Manterrupting & Bropropriating
- 47 Sexual Harassment - Sexual harassment is widely prevalent
- 48 Proactive Measures & Success Stories
- 49 Career Development Workshops for Women in Physics
- 50 And by the way, I do get along with my colleagues!
- 51 Breaking into Male Bastions: India's Women Rocket Scientists
- 52 But...Rocket Scientists in 'Mission Mangal'!
- 53 Committees, Govt. of India
- 54 Concerted Efforts Needed to Change Numbers
- 55 Mentors and Friends Help a Lot!
- 56 Q&A
- 57 The 'Obvious' Measures
