World-wide data on Women astronomers - International Astronomy Union

World-wide data on Women astronomers from the International Astronomy Union

Posted at August 25, 2020
in Blog, Women in Science

These data are taken from the presentation “Women in astronomy world-wide” by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford University & University of Dundee, United Kingdom), EAS2020 (European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting), Plenary Talk, 02 July 2020. They evidence a higher percentage of women astronomers in Southern Europe and Latin America.

See the data are taken from presentation here (pdf).

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