Conveners
Plenary (WIPISA): Prof Shobhana Narasimhan, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India
- Rosinah Modiba (CSIR)
Shobhana Narasimhan
(JNCASR)
06/07/2022, 12:15
Track H - Plenaries
Oral Presentation
Almost everywhere in the world, women constitute a minority in the STEM workforce. A frequently misconception is that the number of women in STEM is particularly low in the Global South. In fact, on plotting the percentage of women in the STEM workforce of a nation versus its per capita income PPP, one obtains an inverted U: as a country becomes richer, the percentage of women in STEM rises...
