{"id":201544,"date":"2022-08-23T21:07:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=201544"},"modified":"2022-08-23T21:07:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:37:55","slug":"more-women-are-making-a-career-in-science-a-lot-more-needs-to-be-done-to-ease-their-journeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/more-women-are-making-a-career-in-science-a-lot-more-needs-to-be-done-to-ease-their-journeys\/","title":{"rendered":"More women are making a career in science. A lot more needs to be done to ease their journeys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<\/strong>\u201c<\/strong>More women are making a career in science. A lot more needs to be done to ease their journeys<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>published in\u00a0The Indian Express\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a023rd<\/sup>\u00a0August 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 Social Justice – Women and related issues<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: Women making careers in science.<\/p>\n

News:<\/strong> The social sciences and humanities register a larger presence of women researchers. Now, the presence of women has increased appreciably in the sciences as well.<\/p>\n

What does the data say?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The data released by the Department of Science and Technology (DST)<\/strong> has confirmed a rise in the participation of women in scientific and technological fields over the last two decades.<\/p>\n

The percentage of women researchers has increased\u00a0from 13.9 in 2015 to 18.7 in 2018.<\/p>\n

Women today occupy key research and leadership positions in institutions such as ISRO, DRDO, etc.<\/p>\n

What are the factors behind the higher enrollment of women in science?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

First, the <\/strong>efforts of the individual enterprise<\/p>\n

Second,<\/strong> the effort of the government through grants on gender diversity and aligning the infrastructure for greater inclusivity.<\/p>\n

Third,<\/strong> Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy 2020<\/strong> focus on meeting its target of 30 percent women at a post-doctoral level by 2030. In pursuance of the policy, DST is implementing GATI, a grading system for institutes<\/strong>. Grading of an institute will be on the basis of enrollment and impetus to the careers of women in its ranks.<\/p>\n

What are the challenges to further increase in the participation of women?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

First,<\/strong> according to the 2018 Global Gender Gap report, India is ranked 108 out of 149 countries.<\/p>\n

Second,<\/strong> 2019 All India Survey on Higher Education shows a significant lag in female participation at doctoral levels.<\/p>\n

Third,<\/strong> women scientists often have to shoulder a disproportionate burden of academic housekeeping in comparison to their male counterparts.<\/p>\n

How the issues can be solved?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

A proper system of mentoring and availability of funds can be set up, especially for those women who want to get back into the workforce after a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cMore women are making a career in science. A lot more needs to be done to ease their journeys\u201d\u00a0published in\u00a0The Indian Express\u00a0on\u00a023rd\u00a0August 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Social Justice – Women and related issues Relevance: Women making careers in science. News: The social sciences and humanities register a… Continue reading More women are making a career in science. A lot more needs to be done to ease their journeys<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-201544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704762841},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}