The Increasing Number of Women with Postgraduate Qualifications in Physics in Ecuador

Autor(en)

Silvana Guitarra, Dario Niebeskikwiat, Cecilia Paredes, Paola Ayala

Abstrakt

Although the social reality in Ecuador is similar to that in most Latin American countries, support for research in fundamental and applied sciences has gained in importance in the last few years. An Ecuadorian team participated for the first time in the IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics in 2005, when no woman in the country had yet earned a postgraduate degree. By the 2011 ICWIP Conference, the number of women with PhD degrees had increased five times, whereas the trend for men remained the same. This paper gives an overview on how the Ecuadorian research community has started to work together on a national initiative to improve the human and infrastructure capacity to develop science and technology, with support from the government and the science-related ministries.

Organisation(en)

Elektronische Materialeigenschaften

Externe Organisation(en)

Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

Journal

AIP Conference Proceedings

Band

1517

Seiten

96-97

Anzahl der Seiten

2

ISSN

0094-243X

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4794237

Publikationsdatum

2013

ÖFOS 2012

504014 Gender Studies

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

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