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This is one of the thematic reports of the study Meta-analysis of gender and science research, a project of the 7th RTD Framework Programme of the European Union (RTD-PP-L4-2007-1), commissioned by DG Research to the consortium led by CIREM (Spain) and made up of Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Inova Consultancy Ltd. (United Kingdom), Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (Italy), Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany) and Politikatörténeti Intézet KHT (Hungary). The study was carried out between 2008 and 2010.
The purpose of the study was to collect and analyse research on horizontal and vertical gender segregation in research careers, as well as the underlying causes and effects of these two processes.
The objectives of the study were to:
- Provide an exhaustive overview and analysis of research on gender and science carried out at the European, national, and regional levels.
- Make the study results accessible to researchers and policy-makers via an informed bibliography (online
- database) and a set of reports.
- Steer policy-making on gender and science and define future research priorities within the Framework Programme, in particular through good practice examples and gap analysis in the various research topics.
- For the purposes of the study, ‘science’ was understood in its broadest meaning, including social sciences and humanities as well as research and technological development.
The study covered the research on gender and science produced between 1980 and 2008, in all European
languages, in 33 countries: the 27 EU Member States as well as 6 Associated Countries to the Seventh
Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) (Croatia, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey).
The objective of this report is to present and analyze the studies in the Gender and Science database
that deal with continental European countries.
The first part of the report is devoted to a statistical synthesis of the publications that deal with
continental counties in the Gender and Science Database. It thus give a global overview of the gender
and science research approach applied in continental countries.
The second part is a review theGSD’s literature under the following topic headings: horizontal segregation, vertical segregation, pay and funding, stereotypes and identity, science as a labour activity, scientific excellence, gender in research content, and policies towards gender equality in science. For each topic the questions which have so far not been adequately answered are described. These gaps in the literature are summarized in the conclusion.