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Gender > International

These data come from a study conducted in conjunction with the Second IUPAP International Conference
of Women in Physics in 2005. More than 1350 women from more than 70 countries responded.

• Physics degrees earned by women in selected countries
• Timing of women’s choice of physics as a career
• Quality of attention from undergraduate professors
• Women physicists’ relationships with graduate advisors
• Differences in resources in developed and developing countries
• Differences in timing of children in developed and developing countries
• Women physicists’ sources of support during early career
• Women physicists’ reasons for discouragement
• Areas women physicists identify as needing improvement
• Effect of children on women’s perception of relative career advancement
  
  

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