Abstract
Europe has gradually consolidated its integration of the gender dimension in the field of research and innovation. Institutional structures have shown that the development of gender diversity policies have improved the conditions of equality between women and men. However, the representation of women in the workforce is still an everyday and universal concern. This article analyses the position of women in academic research. For this purpose, the evolution of the participation of women in research and innovation projects in the context of higher education is observed, taking the University of the Basque Country, Spain, as a case study. In order to evaluate the situation of women in research and innovation projects, the authors analyse a database with 75,864 records of projects collected between 2007 and 2018. The analysis confirms that a more balanced participation has been achieved between women and men in research and innovation teams and in project management structures. However, it also shows that gender diversity should continue to be a priority, in addition to its integration in science and technology financing programmes. Knowing this reality can be useful to promote the intensive development of public policies and to contribute towards the effort to improve the statistics of women’s participation in science.
Highlights
Research is not the only field of activity where the gender equality agenda has been co-opted in the early 21st century [1]
The participation of women in science and its evolution has been monitored by the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC), an agency attached to the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities
The Chisquare Automatic Interaction Detection (CHAID) is a variant of the original AID (Automatic Interaction Detection) developed to segment a group and establish statistically disparate typologies when we find ourselves in a research situation that distinguishes between a dependent variable collected numerically and a set of independent variables collected in a nominal manner
Summary
Research is not the only field of activity where the gender equality agenda has been co-opted in the early 21st century [1]. Just during the last decade, there has been progress in the consolidation of studies with a gender perspective, with the aim of giving visibility to women’s participation in science, in addition to measuring their participation in order to develop mechanisms and policies that promote equality between men and women [4]. These studies have shown that women do not enjoy the same opportunities as men when it comes to pursuing a professional career in science. The CSIC was a pioneer in the preparation of statistics on research staff broken down by sex in 2001 and with the creation of a Women and Science Commission (CMYC) in 2002
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