Women in Physics in Ukraine: 2000-2004

摘要

In this presentation we would like to show the most recent trends concerning women in physical science in Ukraine. The report at the previous IUPAP conference in Paris in 2002 seemed to follow the general world trends: Women in physics represented a minority at all levels of the academic ladder. The percentage of women was lower at the highest levels of the ladder. Women are more underrepresented in physics compared with other sciences, including the natural sciences. Very recent trends of women's representation in physics at the entry level of the academic ladder seem to be highly positive. We can report an increase in the number of women who are getting their PhD degrees in physics in the last 3 years, both in absolute (Figure 1) and relative (Figure 2) numbers. Overall, the percentage of PhDs in physics obtained by women almost doubled from about 20% in 2000 to about 35% in 2004. In absolute values, this number increased threefold (!) from 30 in 2000 to 90 in 2004. Interestingly, the same trend is observed in chemistry but not in biology, where women represent a stable majority of about 60% (see Figure 2).