Keeping tabs on the women: Life scientists in Europe

PLoS Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 494-496

  Neugebauer, Karla M ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b Career Development Committee of ELSO   (Germany)

^c ELSO's Database of Expert Women in the Molecular Life Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; BIOMEDICINE; CAREER; DATA BASE; DOCTORAL EDUCATION; EDUCATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENDER; GERMANY; GOVERNMENT; GRADUATE STUDENT; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SCHOOL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIST; SHORT SURVEY; TEACHER; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; MANPOWER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; TIME;

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TIME FACTORS; WOMEN;

EID: 33646243212     PISSN: 15457885     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040097     Document Type: Short Survey

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