The number of women in physics in Nigeria is increasing, but women still remain underrepresented. Nigeria is a country of 120 million people, and 60% of these are women. A new survey was conducted to analyze the progress made by female physicists since the First IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics was held in Paris in 2002. Questionnaires were distributed to almost all female physicists in the physics departments of Nigerian universities and to a few female physicists working outside the university. Most of the women in physics are still from the southern part of the country; this is expected because the literacy rate is higher in the south than in the north. Of the female physicists who responded to the survey, 44% have now obtained their PhD degrees, compared with 25% in 2002, when the first survey was conducted. Despite all odds these women continue to improve themselves through determination and hard work. Almost all of them were trained in the country, and hence have little interaction with researchers outside.
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