WiS-CSG: Women in Science - Career Support Group

Project: Women in Research and Support System: Survey Project, 2018-2019

The ‘Women in Research and Support System’ survey project was led by a group of volunteers in 2018 in order to develop a data-driven report on the challenges faced by women in Science. A total of 219 international participants responded to this survey to help identify the gaps in the support received by women researchers in a professional STEM environment. The report from this survey is available as Open Source project. (more details below)

Authors and Attribution

This project was designed, executed, coordinated and written by several scientists, located in different cities in India, Europe, and the USA. (see the articles below)

Raw data

The raw file of the survey data is available in the data folder. Please note that any information that can be traced back to our respondent’s identity has been removed.

License

Documentation and articles associated with this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Any associated source code is available under the MIT license.

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Analysis and Report

You can find the report of the data analysis, and related articles as a 5-part series.

Demography of the respondents

Illustration by: Vibhav Nadkarni, PgDipSci, sponsored by Sci-Illustrate and originally published on sciwri.club

Article 1

• An unequal support conundrum
• Authors: Shubhendu Sen, Divya Swaminathan

Article 2

• Gender Bias: Myth or Fact?
• Authors: Ashwani Kumar and Shivasankari Gomathinayagam

Article 3

• Does Every Biased Action Have an Effective Reaction?
• Author: Malvika Sharan

Article 4

• Gender Diversity Paradox: Her Leadership Story
• Authors: Soudeh Yaghouti and Poorva Dharkar

Article 5

• The Work-Life Equilibrium: In-Balance or Imbalance?
• Authors: Aishwarya Swaminathan and Siddarth Chandrasekaran

Shraddha Lad took an important role of coordinating this project.

Code of Conduct

Please read our code of conduct, that outlines our expectations for participants within the WIS-CSG community. If you believe someone is violating the Code of Conduct, we ask that you report it to by emailing us via csg.womeninscience@gmail.com. We, the core members of this community, will take the appropriate action to address the situation.

The GitHub repo

This repo is maintained by Malvika Sharan, on behalf of the members from the WiS-CSG group. This repository will be used to publish our dataset, source code, and articles under the Open Access and Open Source Licenses.