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NOWR: Poor research output prevents women from academic advancement
29-3-2019
In its issue of today, An Nahar newspaper highlighted the work of the National Observatory for Women in Research (NOWR), ‘Your role females’, launched on March 11 (https://bit.ly/2FJT3iN), An Nahar spoke to coordinator Tamara Zein, who explained the purpose from the observatory which is to understand the nature of research in Lebanon and measure women’s participation to this effect. The action plan, Zein maintained, will continue for two years before the observatory becomes a solid platform. The observatory seeks to acknowledge the contributions by Lebanese female researchers and streamline them through creation of an electronic portal and draw attention to the talents of females on social media. It also aims to provide direct support vehicles or channels with concerned international agencies and institutions; develop the capacities of researches at the start of their career, notably in the transitional post doctorate period, up to changing the legislations related to Lebanese women in the academic and research areas. She pointed out that the National Council for Scientific Research currently provides funds for doctoral scientific research, noting that nearly 72% of females benefit from the program, with a decline in the number of researcher beneficiaries (about 40%). The rate of women candidates for the award of scientific excellence launched by the Council, is very limited when compared to male contestants, Zein said. The Council receives around 110 applications, out of which 27 applications are submitted by women against 83 by men, Zein added. This modest participation by female researchers reflects negatively in their seizing of advanced academic positions, she lamented, pointing to the low rate of female college deans in Lebanon (between 10% to 14%), while women presidents do not exceed 5%. (An Nahar, March 29, 2019)
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