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Gender gap in science in Africa: experience of African women in mathematics association

  • Marie Françoise Ouedraogo EMAIL logo , Selma Negzaoui ORCID logo and Sophie Dabo-Niang
Published/Copyright: October 20, 2021
Pure and Applied Chemistry
From the journal Pure and Applied Chemistry Volume 93 Issue 11

Abstract

This paper deals with gender gap in Mathematics across Africa. Reducing the gender gap in Mathematics in Africa, is the major aim of African Women in Mathematics Association (AWMA) through various activities. Using macrodata from two international surveys and microdata from two African universities (Joseph Ki-Zerbo of Burkina Faso and Monastir in Tunisia), differences in favor to men in the participation of female teachers and teacher-researchers in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Computer Sciences are highlighted. Some practices, considered by AWMA, aiming to reduce the Gender Gap are also evoked.

Keywords: AWMA; best practices; gender gap; gender gap in Africa; participation of female researchers in science; science; STEM
Corresponding author: Marie Françoise Ouedraogo, Université Joseph-Ki-Zerbo, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences Exactes et Appliquées, Laboratoire de Théorie des Nombres, Algébre, Géométrie Algébrique et Topologie Algébrique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, e-mail:

Article note: A collection of invited papers on the gender gap in science.

Acknowledgment

The authors are very grateful to the International Science Council (ISC) and the different Unions and organizations for providing the Gender Gap book, a useful tool on the reduction of gender gap in science and specially the running project of gender gap in Africa. They thank the standing committee of AWMA for discussions to improve this work.

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Published Online: 2021-10-20
Published in Print: 2021-11-25

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Keywords for this article
AWMA; best practices; gender gap; gender gap in Africa; participation of female researchers in science; science; STEM

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