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[" Kamaras Katalin " <kamaras AT szfki.hu>]

Kedves Kollegak,

eppen Amerikaban vagyok, es itt teljesen veletlenul beleszaladtam egy 
kolleganom kerdesebe, aki ugyanezt a 47%-ot hallotta valahol. Nemi kereses 
utan a kovetkezo forrasokra akadtam: 

http://onlineethics.org/div/abstracts/surpcultdiv.html

Egy Jim Megaw nevu kanadai uriemberre hivatkozik, aki allitolag egy 
nemzetkozi 
felmerest vegzett. 

Ugyanerrol allitolag a Science 1994 marciusi szama is irt: 

The March 11, 1994 issue of Science includes a special section on Women in 
Science. Having focused primarily on the United States in this section for 
the 
past two years, this year the journal set out to look at conditions elsewhere 
in the word and encountered some surprises. First, there wasn't much 
literature comparing women in science across cultures. So reporter Marcia 
Barinaga assembled what studies did exist and then sought out female 
researchers who had lived in more than one culture. This process yielded the 
second surprise: Her interviews suggested that compared to women scientists 
working in the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan, female 
researchers in such nations as Italy, Portugal, Turkey and the Philippines 
may 
be finding their lot an easier one. Data from a study by Jim Megaw in 1990 
showed that the participation of women in physics varied dramatically among 
countries. Japan had the lowest percentage of women physics faculty (1-2%), 
with Canada, West Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Korea, the United States, 
U.K. 
and Mexico all having less than 5% women physics faculty. At the other end of 
the spectrum, Hungary had 47% women faculty in physics. Thailand, USSR, 
Philippines and Portugal all have greater than 25% female physics faculty.

(Excerpted from "Surprises Across the Cultural Divide" by Marcia Barinaga, 
Science 263:1468-1472.)

Ezek a szamok mar csak azert is meglepoek, mert "physics faculty"-t emleget, 
ami errefele egyertelmuen a fizika tanszekeken dolgozo egyetemi oktatokat 
jelenti. Nyilvan mindegyikunk tudja, milyen messze van ott a nok aranya a 47%-
tol... Az egyetlen, amit el tudok kepzelni, hogy (mivel kerdoives felmeresrol 
volt szo) a foiskolak tul voltak reprezentalva a mintaban, bar meg igy is 
furcsanak tartom ezt az oriasi aranyt. Ha valaki (Magda talan? :) ) utana 
tudna nezni az eredeti Science cikknek, az biztosan mindannyiunk epulesere 
valik (kiveve persze azt a kedves kollegankat, aki egyszer mar megirta ezeken 
a hasabokon, hogy genetikailag alkalmatlanok vagyunk mindenfajta szellemi 
teljesitmenyre...). 

Udvozlettel

Kamaras Katalin

Katalin Kamaras
Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
P. O. Box 49, Budapest, Hungary, H-1525
Phone: +36 1 392 2222 ext. 1312    Fax: +36 1 392 2219
email: 
kamaras AT szfki.hu
    homepage: www.szfki.hu/~kamaras