Mulheres na ciência

In 2018, women still only account for one third of university students enrolled in Science, Technology and Mathematics fields in the world 1 . This difference tends to be even more striking among more advanced academic positions. Disincentives begin in childhood and continue over the course of the professional life, often so subtly that their effects are only noticed after the fact 2 . Gender inequalities in science in Brazil, in particular in Mathematics, were the topic of the 1st Fluminense Meeting of Women in Biomathematics, which took place from August 15th to 17th, 2018 (http://dippg.cefet-rj.br/efmb). In addition to fostering debate, the meeting also sought to publicize the work of important Rio de Janeiro female Biomathematics researchers, an interdisciplinary field that is growing in Brazil, in which Mathematics are applied to issues from Biology, Medicine, Public Health and other fields. It had an excellent audience repercussion, with participants from 33 research and teaching institutions, including three from other countries, distributed among professors, researchers and students from primary education all the way to PhD candidates. The main theme was Mathematical Epidemiology, a field that seeks to use Mathematics to study the dynamics of transmissible diseases and their control. The studies presented at the encounter focused on dengue dynamics, vaccine interventions for varicella, yellow fever and influenza modeling and spatial distribution of leptospirosis, among others. The diverse methodologies show the insertion of female Brazilian researchers in fields such as stochastic and deterministic modeling, computational modeling, big data, etc

Medicine · Science and Education Research

• Mulheres no mundo da ciência e da publicação científica

  Open Access•Matheus Dos Santos Carvalho, Claudia Medina Coeli et al.•Cadernos de Saude Publica•2018

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