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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8385
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/research

Increase number of women in research

Brussels, 23/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, Commissioner Philippe Busquin received a report on the number of women involved in European research. This report confirms that they are poorly represented in the private sector. Barely 50,000 of the 500,000 researchers in European industry are women. In the ten countries that have available data on the gender of researchers, the average number of women is around 15% but this figure is less in Germany (9.6M) and Austria (9%). In Finland...

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