Climbing the Academy Ladder in Brazil: Physics | Zendy

M. A. Cotta | Zendy; Marília Caldas | Zendy; Márcia C. Barbosa | Zendy; Beverly Karplus Hartline | Zendy; Renee K. Horton | Zendy; Catherine M. Kaicher | Zendy

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Climbing the Academy Ladder in Brazil: Physics

Author(s) -

M. A. Cotta,

Marília Caldas,

Márcia C. Barbosa,

Beverly Karplus Hartline,

Renee K. Horton,

Catherine M. Kaicher

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

aip conference proceedings

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177

H-Index - 75

eISSN - 1551-7616

pISSN - 0094-243X

DOI - 10.1063/1.3137921

Subject(s) - prejudice (legal term) , climbing , process (computing) , point (geometry) , medical education , psychology , computer science , engineering , medicine , mathematics , social psychology , geometry , structural engineering , operating system

In the last few years, the main Brazilian funding agencies, CNPq and CAPES, have introduced gender awareness projects. This initiative is a starting point for changing the percentage of women at all career levels in physics, but particularly at the top. The change in the percentage of female researchers at the different levels so far has been quite mild; the most likely reason is that the decision committees consist mostly of male researchers. We show that prejudice is still present in the evaluation process. The average number of publications of the female researchers is 72% higher than for the male researchers at the entrance level, indicating that it is harder for women to enter into the research system.

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