Orateur
Prof.
Shobhana Narasimhan
(Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research)
Description
As everywhere in the world, women constitute a definite minority
in the physics community in India. However, the factors contributing
to this are not the same as elswehere in the world. For example, in
contrast to the "leaky pipeline" reported in Western countries, in India
there are several women students up to the PhD level, followed by a
precipitous drop subsequently. In recent years, there has been increasing
awareness that this represents a huge loss of human resources.
The Government and the Science Academies
have started various projects to combat this phenomenon, some of which
I will summarize. Though there is a paucity of rigorous data on these
matters, I will also present whatever data we have been able to collect.
Auteur principal
Prof.
Shobhana Narasimhan
(Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research)
