The women´ participation in the scientific production of Science and Technology in Peru. An analysis of papers published in ECIPERU Revista del Encuentro Científico Internacional (2006 – 2009)

Abstract

These work determines the level of women´ participation in the scientific production of Science and Technology in Peru, and the sciences in which this participation takes place, from the analysis of six volume of ECIPERU Revista del Encuentro Científico Internacional published from the 2006 to 2009 years, to making a comparison between achieved data and data produced by the record of the men´ participation level and the sciences which these devote their scientific production. The obtained results show how the degree of women´ participation in the production of Science and Technology in Peru is considerable, and consequently, the professional and academic acknowledgment confered to the women which produce and publish science in this country, but as well the obstacles to overcome if it want revert the historic trend that prevailed and still prevail at national and international level, that is the exclusion and discrimination towards the women which produce science.