Women scientists
There are many women scientists in the world who are credited with discoveries and advances in a wide variety of areas of science. Women scientists have made a difference in fields of biology, medicine, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, and research.
From the dawn of the civilization women and men worked together to make the future brighter. Why aren't there more women in science in Bangladesh? Their under-representation in the sciences is being recognized round the world as an important issue. It is not that they are not studying science. The biological and chemical sciences are believed to have even higher levels of enrolment. At a certain point of the social development process, a few socially determined factors created a cultural hemisphere, which pushed the civilization not to think women as equal to the men. This cultural phenomenon changed the thought process of society and the society started discrimination between women and men and ultimately women become a deprived part of society.
Modern social science looked into the social disorder and termed it as gender discrimination. This discrimination is sharply visible in our social and state level activities and attitude. Family issues play a big part in deterring well-trained women scientists from pursuing science as a career. Scientific training is a long drawn process that involves working for years on a doctorate and then spending some more years in post-doctoral positions. A scientist would then be in his or her early thirties. With their biological clock ticking away, women scientists who wish to raise a family cannot postpone marriage until they have secure faculty positions. But with the lion's share of the burden of running a household and rearing children falling on women in Bangladeshi society, it becomes much more difficult for women scientists to meet their professional commitments.
A family-friendly environment that provides child-care facilities, accommodation for couples close to or on campus, flexible working hours and sympathetic recognition of the problems facing dual career families helps.
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