Lauren Auton, 11/19/09, 3:41 PM
Out of the 443 Indian scientists in the past fifty years who have received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award, only ten were women. Of the 133 people who have received the Young Scientist award since 1987, only seventeen were women. And of the seventy scientists who have received the National Bio Science between 1999 and 2000, only ten were female scientists. This seems to be a common trend in the sciences in India. The article mentions numerous other times that women have fallen behind men in the number of awards received and in the number of job positions they fill.
Even in the government, which would hopefully be the most unbiased, men greatly outnumber women. Only 950 women are counted among the government's Defence Research and Development Organisation's scientific work force. At first glance this may seem like a pretty high number, but in reality it does not even compare to the seven thousand men who also work for the organization. Women also have a hard time getting positions at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, making up less than twenty percent of the women scientists employed there. This just goes to show that even countries as technologically advanced as India is still have a long way to come before gender equality can be reached.
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