Status of Women in Physics in Greece

摘要

Greece is a country where the number of women in first-year undergraduate physics has been particularly high and stable over the last 20 years, averaging about 30%. This is probably due to the peculiar entrance exam system, which assigns a student to a discipline according to his/her grades and not according to his/her absolute preference. The percentage of women graduating from the university in physics is about 36%. At the graduate level, the number of women students still rises! This is due to the high percentage (65%) of women enrolled in graduate environmental studies (see Figure 1).