Team:Brasil-USP/Practices/WomanInScience
Woman in Science
Policy and Practices
Table of contents
Gender representation seems to be a timely topic. For instance, Scientific American wrote about Gender Diversity and Synthetic Biology, where they report a study performed by 2013' team Paris Bettencourt. Even more interesting is to find a page dedicated to Women in Synthetic Biology in Pinterest, with links to blog posts and news. More recently, scientists around the globe have been showing real signs of disavowal to any gender discrimination present in science. So, we decided to search more about this topic by doing some research ourselves, such as interviweing students from the Physical Intitute of São Carlos from the University of São Paulo and doing an internet survey.
We are very happy that more than 70% of our team are women. Additionally, our PI and the majority of our advisors are female. Rumor has it, this is the reason behind all of our project success ;)
Interviews
Our Intitute, the São Carlos Physics Institute - University of São Paulo, has a majority of men, but we have some very talented female scients. We interviewed four female graduate students from our Institute to hear their opinion about women in science and how they see this subject in our institute and in general. All students have graduated at IFSC and are doing master or doctorate, so they have lots of experience and opinions to share with you! You can find the links for each interview below and choose if you want to read the original version in Portuguese or the translated one in English. Don’t forget to check it out!
Krissia de Zawadzki: English | Português
Hilde Harb Buzzá: English | Português
Nathália Beretta Tomázio: English | Português
Letícia Zago: English | Português
Survey
We decided to do a survey about women in graduation to see what people thought about it and have some statics to work with. Our purpose was to better understand this topic by knowing the proportion of women on the course over the years, how they were compared with their male counterparts, if they were ever discriminated or harassed during university, etc. The survey, though, is not meant to be taken on behalf of all students, since it was done with a relatively small number of people. We only wanted to have an idea about this matter and what people thought of it.
The survey was done only with brazilian students, especially those from University of São Paulo. The data we have gathered can be seen below.