Saturday, January 23, 2010

Gender Conflict

2009, could be consider as the year of the women since the Nobel had 4 women awarded, especially the Nobel is quite political. In the Nobel history of the 300 awarded only 40 are women, and the ration between women and men is evenly split, but the numbers are quite small, so how is possible the numbers are so small. In general in any profession, where a percent around 15% of group is not found profession can be considered as token.
The statistics in US in Europe per country shows percent in this profession, what is important not the women are in profession, but these professions had dominated by men. In US in the 90´s women in Mathematics in Physics their number was 3% to 8%, in 2000´s the numbers when up to 14%. In Europe Portugal have 42% women with PhD in Physics, following Italy with 36.9%, France 35% and from this point Germany 15% and Anglo Saxon U.K, Ireland at 7%, the Scandinavian countries in the 4% and the last in the list is Iceland with not at all.
Since we are evenly split why this phenomenon, in Germany, become a professor is selected informally, and some ways is bases in seniority.
Many females leave the profession to built families, and the reason many leave is not family support in this institutions. A Neocon Bernard Lewis, who complain the Islam was using half of his creative, by suppressing females in his book, “What When Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response.”
Not just Lewis point but actions by Iranian President Mahmound Ahmadinejad, who limited the women enrolment in higher educations institutions and medical schools institutions. In Gaza Hamas has force Sharia law and women had become under Islamic law as second class. But the hypocrisy from Western institutions, by give support to women who going to built families, after all in our societies men did not raise children, just letting the spouses jobs,
The inequality created institutions; the hierarchy becomes a relationship of power.