Women Scientists: Some Statistics
Here are some statistics from our media project “Charming Science” which will be launched this Friday, on 11 February, exactly on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. According to the statistical studies by the National Research University “Higher School of Economics”:
• almost 40% of researchers working in Russia are women;
• in 2019, there were 136.1 thousand women researchers, and this is 11.6% less than in 2010;
• the considerable part of women researchers are young scientists aged up to 39 (42.5%);
• women researchers are more likely committed to one place of employment (63.2%) than their male colleagues (53.4%);
• Choosing a job, the absolute majority of women (68.2%) consider social security as a crucial point.
At the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems:
• women researchers make up 19.4% of all DLNP researchers;
• women researchers are between 26 and 84 years old;
• 54.9% of them are aged up to 40;
• 45.1% of them have academic degrees (20 candidates of science and 3 doctors of science).
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