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Women are much underrepresented among #STEM professors & even worse, improvement is *very* slow in Europe according to @EU_Commission report series SHE Figures: female % increases slowly over time, but decreases strongly from gr.C (postdoc) to gr.A (full prof.) positions 1/5
Plotting same data across career stage from student (1) to full professor (5) visualizes gender gap even more clearly. If rate of convergence remains constant, 50% female prof's will be reached >2075. For perspective, roughly when my grandgrandchildren would start working 2/5
Obviously, increased efforts to reduce gap are outweighed by strong systematic & unconscious biases. Which does not only prolong injustice but also makes science weaker: researcher diversity is key to scientific productivity https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05326-3. What to do? 3/5
The options are essentially all spelled out, e.g. 
https://eige.europa.eu/gender-mainstreaming/toolkits/gear/action-toolbox, but still "there is a tendency to associate science with men". As a small counteraction in my field, I start a year long thread highlighting a female ecologist or environmental scientist per day. 4/5
https://eige.europa.eu/gender-mainstreaming/toolkits/gear/action-toolbox, but still "there is a tendency to associate science with men". As a small counteraction in my field, I start a year long thread highlighting a female ecologist or environmental scientist per day. 4/5
Full disclosure: Some are friends & collaborators, others I only know by their work (papers/talks). Some I supervised, some I ran projects with, some I never met. However, all are great scientists! Will contain all career stages & order of appearance of course is random 5/5
