Jones, Claire G. (Author)
Hawkins, Sue (Author)
(No abstract, first paragraph of article.) That there is a `problem' with women and science is a truth universally acknowledged. According to statistics provided by the UK organization WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) female participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics begins to decline at A-level and accelerates downhill fast thereafter. In 2012 only 13% of all jobs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in the UK were held by women.1 This phenomenon is not restricted to the UK, but is also a matter of recorded concern in both the USA and the European Union (EU). According to the European Platform for Women Scientists, female scientists continue to be significantly under-represented, especially in decision-making positions and particularly in the private sector.2 Another EU source, `Science in Society', has published data which show that although women constitute 40% of science, maths and computing graduates, they represent only 32% of researchers in these fields, and occupy only 11% of senior academic jobs in these disciplines.3 In some countries and disciplines, these percentages are even lower. The plethora of organizations across the globe dedicated to promoting the role of women in science further reinforces the notion that there is something awry and that this is an international problem. This imbalance translates into women's limited participation in professional scientific networks of all kinds, including learned societies; women comprise, for example, only around 5% of the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2014 and approximately 10% of members of the prestigious US society, the National Academy of Sciences.4 If we move from contemporary to historical considerations, women of science and their achievements barely pierce our scientific imagination in the way that men of science do. There are, of course, a few women---Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin, for instance---who dominate scientific memory, but the landscape of science remains resolutely male.
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