[Premium] Low Participation of women in STEM fields
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Why in News?
- A recent survey points out that the women participation in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine) is only around 14%.
- This suggests that many of our best brains that showed the maximum potential do not pick research as their career.
What is the status?
- According to the 2018 UNESCO Institute for Statistics’ report on women in science, 44% of bachelor students and 41% of doctoral students in India are female.
- In India, women suffers from “double burden syndrome” – a culture where both men and women think that the family and household duties are primary responsibility of woman.
- 81% of women in India perceive gender bias in performance evaluations.
- There is a relatively few women pursue careers in research, ev
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