Where are the women in science?

By Joe Myers. While governments around the world are wringing their hands over a lack of gender diversity in the sciences, some countries are managing to buck the trend with more women than men working in research and development.
Globally, just 28% of R&D workers are women, according to a study by UNESCO. Although in a few countries more than half of researchers are women, and in Myanmar, the highest scoring country, the figure is 86%. More...