Departament of Physics, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Institute of Physics, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
PLoS One. 2023 Jul 7;18(7):e0287931. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287931. eCollection 2023.
It is known that diversity matters to improve scientific excellence and that scientific events are important occasions to discuss new ideas and create networks, beyond the fact that it helps to put the work of the scientists in evidence. Hence, increasing diversity in scientific events is crucial to improve their scientific quality and help to promote minorities. In Brazil, important physics scientific events are organized by the Brazilian Physical Society (SBF, in Portuguese), and in this work, some aspects related to the participation of women in these physics events are analyzed from 2005 to 2021. The analysis shows that women's participation has increased over the years, reaching in some areas of Physics the same percentage as the one observed in the SBF community (always below 25%). However, female participation as members of organizing committees and as keynote speakers is always lower. Some proposals are listed to change the current picture of inequality.
众所周知,多样性对于提高科学卓越性很重要,而科学活动是讨论新想法和建立网络的重要场合,除此之外,它还有助于展示科学家的工作。因此,增加科学活动的多样性对于提高其科学质量和帮助促进少数群体至关重要。在巴西,重要的物理科学活动由巴西物理学会(SBF)组织,在这项工作中,从 2005 年到 2021 年,分析了女性在这些物理活动中的参与情况。分析表明,女性的参与率多年来有所增加,在一些物理领域达到了与 SBF 社区相同的比例(始终低于 25%)。然而,作为组织委员会成员和主题演讲者的女性参与率总是较低。列出了一些建议来改变当前不平等的局面。