Speaker
Joanna Behrman
(University of Copenhagen)
Description
Gender equality in physics is a pressing issue as women continue to be underrepresented at almost all levels of education or employment. However, women’s colleges have produced a disproportionate number of female science graduates for over a hundred years. In this longitudinal interdisciplinary study, historical institutional records have been used to create a purpose-built database of hundreds of women in physics spanning two centuries. We conducted bipartite (two-mode) network analyses of female physicists with both institutions and people as nodes. Preliminary results indicate key factors in the success of a subset of highly productive institutions for women in physics.
| Education level | Age over 18 (excluding teacher education) |
|---|---|
| Physics topic | Other |
| Research focus | Other |
| Research method | Mixed method (qualitative & quantitative) |
| Organizing preference criteria | Track |
Author
Joanna Behrman
(University of Copenhagen)
Co-author
Prof.
Adrienne Traxler
(University of Copenhagen)
