26 Aug 2015
EWM Georgia 2013-2015
Repoted by Nino Rokva
Global Gender Gap Index 2014: 85th
Overall situation of women in science
About 4 490 000 people live in Georgia. The number of women are 2 349 100. The unemployment rate is about 50 %. Among people employed, 39% are women, mainly employed in the private sector in small and medium businesses. The number of women is small in politics. In Georgian Parliament are 150 members. Among them 11% are women. Pensioner women in Georgia are about 549 000.
As research has shown, the girls academic achievements in STEM’s subjects are equal to boys academic achievements. However, in the end, less girls continue their career in STEM professions. Compared to previous years the number of dynamics is rising, but only slightly.
2014 yearly research report has shown that in higher education institutions are employed 290 mathematicians. Among them 33% are women.
EWM activities and membership
Since 2007, Georgia regularly participates to the EWM meetings which took place in Cambridge, Novi Sad, Barcelona and Bonn. These meetings are helping women mathematicians to exchange about heir experiences.
In Georgian scientific, research and educational institutions there are a variety of projects which are trying to combine and integrate different fields of mathematics. Since 2013 we are involved in the projects MATH-GEAR and META-MATH. In these projects are involved Georgian, Armenian, Russian, German, French and Finnish mathematicians and among them some women, as evidenced by the meetings in Saarbrucken, Lyon, Tampere, Yerevan, Tbilisi, Batumi and Kutaisi universities.
The group of Georgian women mathematicians gathered in Tbilisi on December 3, where were discussed the latest EWM activities, the review of gender issues in academia at the international level and the support to women in their mathematical career in our country.
Then a meeting has been planned in Batumi, on June 5, 2015. We will discuss organizational issues to attend the meeting in Cortona, also about the possible change of the regional coordinator.
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