All around the world, there is an extreme gender imbalance in physics, in both academia and industry. Examples are all too easy to find. In Burkina Faso’s largest university, the University of Ouagadougou, 99% of physics students are men. In Germany, women comprise only 24% of physics PhD graduates — creeping up from 21% in 2017. No women graduated in physical sciences at the University of El Salvador between 2017 and 2020. Australia fares little better. Australian National University Professor Lisa Kewley forecasts that on current settings, it will take 60 years for women to comprise just a third of…
This story continues at The Next Web
We must include more women in physics — it’d benefit all of humanity
The Next Web
0 shares
1 views
You might like
Related news coverage
Bear Expert Weighs In on Viral TikTok Debate, Says Men Are More Dangerous
TMZ
As the viral debate rages on whether women would be safer alone in a forest with a random dude or a bear -- one wildlife expert is..
Advertisement
More coverage
IPCC Proposed Banishment Of Fossil Fuels Would Place Most Of World’s Population At Risk – OpEd
Eurasia Review
The AR6 *Climate Change 2021 Report* just released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an intergovernmental..
Comparing The World Before 1900, To Today – OpEd
Eurasia Review