Insights into Women Astronomers in Taiwan and Their Academic Landscape
Explore the statistics, scientific productivity, and challenges faced by women astronomers in Taiwan, featuring insights on women faculty in astronomy departments at various universities. Discover key topics such as scientific productivity, women speakers at conferences, and the pipeline leakage in academia, providing a comprehensive overview of women's representation and contributions in the field of astronomy in Taiwan.
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Women Astronomers in Taiwan You-Hua Chu Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics Academia Sinica
Topics: 1. Statistics of women faculty 1. Scientific productivity 1. Percentage of women speakers at conferences 4. Leakage of women in academic pipeline 5. Take home message
Astronomy Faculty Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics Universities National Central University (NCU): National Tsing Hua University (NTHU): National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU): 4 (1) National Taiwan University (NTU): Tamkang University (TKU): Fu Jen University (FJU): National Cheng Kung University (NCKU): National Sun Yet Sen University(NSYSU): 28 (7) 8 7 (2) 4 2 1 1 1 4
Percentage of woman faculty: ASIAA 25% 21% Universities 11% ASIAA+Univ. 18% 16%
ASIAA You-Hua Chu (UC Berkeley, 1981) Naomi Hirano (Tohoku U, 1987) Sienny Shang (UC Berkeley, 1998) Ciska Kemper (U Amsterdam, 2002) Tzu-Ching Chang (Columbia U, 2003) Li-Hwai Lin (Nat Taiwan U, 2006) Sherry Suyu (Caltech, 2007) NTHU Shih-Ping Lai (U Illinois, 2001) Vivien Chen (UC Berkeley, 2004) NTNU Wei-Ling Tseng (Nat Central U, 2008)
Scientific Productivity Women vs Men @ ASIAA
Year M21 W7 W7/M21 [W/M] W5 [W/M] W6 [W/M] 2000 57 14 0.25 0.75 2001 54 21 0.39 1.17 2002 41 15 0.37 1.11 2003 53 23 0.43 1.29 2004 57 29 0.51 1.56 10 0.76 2005 43 17 0.40 1.20 2006 44 18 0.41 1.23 2007 52 23 0.44 1.32 14 1.13 2008 56 20 0.36 1.08 2009 64 20 0.31 0.93 2010 87 32 0.37 1.11 14 0.67 2011 83 30 0.36 1.08 2012 94 32 0.34 1.02 2013 93 30 0.32 0.96 2014 72 33 0.46 1.38 2015 88 36 0.41 1.23 2016 48 31 0.65 1.96 4 0.29 6 0.46 5 0.50 6 0.46 5 0.49 9 0.84 9 0.68 6 0.38 21 11 0.55 18 0.80 22 1.01 26 0.98 14 0.80 22 1.05 24 2.10 0.77 20 0.98 28 27 1.96 1.12 Total 1086 424 0.39 12-16 395 162 0.41 1.23 100 1.05 1.17 199 0.76 122 1.09
Total # of Papers Published Per Year 100 21 men 50 7 women 0 2000 2005 2010 2015
Papers per Woman / Papers per Man 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 2000 2005 2010 2015 (4 of the 7 women have a total of 9 children.)
Percentage of Women Speakers at Conferences
Percentages of Women in AAS and IAU # of Women/Total AAS All Members 25% AAS All non-Junior 18% IAU All Members 15% AAS = American Astronomical Society; IAU = International Astronomical Union Cited from http://www.aas.org/cswa/percent.html ; updated June 2014
Histogram of % of Women Speakers (Meetings in 2012-2013 held in North America and elsewhere) Number of Conferences Percentage of Women Speakers (Aug 9, 2013)
ASROC Annual Scientific Meetings 2015 2016 Women/Total Participants = 24% = 24% 36/150 40/166 Women/Total 13/45 12/42 Speakers ~ 29% ~ 29% ASROC = Astronomical Society of the Republic of China
Meetings organized by ASIAA have all paid attention to gender balance and tried to avoid unconscious bias.
Leakage of Women in Academic Pipeline
Women Astronomers in Academic Ladder
Tenured Women Faculty http://www.aas.org/cswa/percent_tenured.html 2013 October 17 56 departments/institutes surveyed 1st Q >25% Median 14% 4th Q < 9%
Leakage in the academic pipeline What cause the leakage? - job outside academia - family/childcare !!! Tenure clock roll-back Eliminate rigid age limit Ease the hardship of childcare - disgusted by harassment
Take Home Message Women astronomers in Taiwan are doing very well. There is still room for universities to improve their hiring. Women with children are as productive as anybody, if not more
