Analysis of women's participation in science: a case study about the Exact and Earth Sciences area in Brazil

In the last decades, several studies on women's participation in science have been conducted and are used to identify women's participation and production, as well as the basis for the development of scientific policies to encourage and value women in science. The present study evaluated the scientific production of more than 40,000 Brazilian PhDs who work in the area of Exact and Earth Sciences, and concluded that: (1) men's participation is considerably higher than women's in almost all the subareas analyzed; (2) there is a growth in the presence of women over time; (3) the percentage of women's publications is slightly lower than their percentage of participation.