1. She Figures 2009 European Commission, Research DG Francesca Crippa Unit L.4 - Scientific culture and gender issues francesca.crippa@ec.europa.eu

2. l l Need of data collection from 1999 Communication Women in Science l l She Figures 2003, 2006 – big success, 2006 edition reprinted, She Figures is the publication on women in science in Europe l l She Figures 2009 contracted to consortium DULBEA & SOGETI l l 16 months since August 2008; value € 300,000 l l Main tasks: Data Collection; Calculation of statistics; Graphs and Text; Layouting and printing l l Main deliverables: She Figures leaflet, booklet, CD (Synopsis, PPT, She Figures history, Publications) The She Figures contract

3. What’s new in She Figures 2009 l l New reference year – 2006 and 2007; time evolution with 2002 l l Improvement of metadata for definition academics/researcher l l New detailed description of board for presidents/leaders/members of research boards + of public research funds (name, description, amount applied for and obtained) l l Population for EU average now includes 27 MS l l New indicators

4. How were data collected l l Statistical Correspondents (30%) l l National questionnaires sent by contractors to MS at the beginning of November 2008 l l Questionnaires were sent back; data were loaded into a new Access database l l Running of consistency checks l l Contact between She Figures contractors and Statistical correspondents to validate questionnaires l l Extraction from NewCronos (70%)

5. How were data treated l l Threshold for EU-average at 60%, in line with ESTAT l l Only HC tables used, as all countries had them whereas it was not the case for FTE l l Compound annual growth rate in publication and leaflet

6. New indicators in Ch. 1/2 l l Distribution of researchers in HES and GOV by sex and age group, 2006 l l Four age groups: <35; 35-44; 45-54; 55+ l l Source: ESTAT S&T Statistics l l Compound annual growth rates and evolution for PhD in natural science & engineering, 2002-2006 l l Compound annual growth rates and evolution for researchers in HES, GOV, BES, by field of science l l Source: ESTAT

7. New indicators in Ch. 3/4 l l Proportion of women in A grades, 2000-2007, and by age groups (12 EU MS) l l Distribution of grade A staff across age groups by sex, 2007 (12 EU MS) l l Distribution of R&D personnel across occupations in all sectors by sex, 2006 (ESTAT) l l Glass Ceiling Index: 2004 and 2007 l l Source: WiS database l l Success rates indicators (evolution, breakdown by fields of science), 2002-2007 (WiS database) l l Female Heads of Institutions in HES 2007 (WiS database) l l Pay-gap in public and private enterprises (ESTAT Structure of Earnings), also broken down by age

8. To be improved l l Reference population for seniority data: researchers or academics? l l Frascati manual gives definition for researchers l l Seniority classification not streamlined yet l l Definition of funds l l Situation with grade A clear, much less with the other seniority grades l l The date of collection (standpoint) l l And now down to business with the data…

9. Proportion of women in the EU-27 for total employment, tertiary educated and employed (HRSTC) and scientists and engineers in 2007, compound annual growth rate for women and men, 2002–2007

10. Proportion of female researchers, 2006

11. Compound annual growth rate for researchers by sex, 2002–2006

12. Proportion of female PhD (ISCED 6) graduates, 2006

13. Compound annual growth rate of PhD graduates (ISCED 6) by sex, 2002–2006

14. Proportion of men and women in a typical academic career, students and academic staff, EU-27, 2002/2006

15. Proportions of men & women in a typical academic career in science and engineering, students and academic staff, EU-27, 2002/2006

16. Proportion of women in grade A academic positions, 2002/2007

17. Glass Ceiling Index, 2004/2007

18. Proportion of women on boards, 2007

19. Proportion of female heads of institutions in the HES, 2007

20. If you have feedback, or questions, email francesca.crippa@ec.europa.eu Thank you for your attention!