Where are
the women?
When I went
to college- the TN Government had a quota system of 12 girls and 12 boys in
each class, later on the ratio skewed more towards boys. In the last 10 years the
number of girls pursuing PT is more. Well
this is not a blog on the gender ratio in classroom but in research.
Few years back we wanted to know the research production of Indian therapist and we did some research to unearth it. But when I was going through the list of first authors- to my surprise most of them are men. I would like to add we did not do any gender analysis, so my saying “most of them” is just informal guess.
When I look around I hardly see women in research in Tamil Nadu and probably in India. I can understand woman don’t sell products like NDT, K-tape and others (I know some use to) as there may be some issues with travelling etc. I understand there are some women in research and the sports therapist in Guru Nanak university come to mind immediately - but where are all the brilliant hard working women? I am assuming many of them have let the country (like cynthiya kesevan) or they are trying hard to leap out in the man’s world.
Few years back we wanted to know the research production of Indian therapist and we did some research to unearth it. But when I was going through the list of first authors- to my surprise most of them are men. I would like to add we did not do any gender analysis, so my saying “most of them” is just informal guess.
When I look around I hardly see women in research in Tamil Nadu and probably in India. I can understand woman don’t sell products like NDT, K-tape and others (I know some use to) as there may be some issues with travelling etc. I understand there are some women in research and the sports therapist in Guru Nanak university come to mind immediately - but where are all the brilliant hard working women? I am assuming many of them have let the country (like cynthiya kesevan) or they are trying hard to leap out in the man’s world.
Any how I just hope our research scene
get more of the brilliant women we see in our class room.
I would also be happy to get a women’s perspective on this – anyone?
I would also be happy to get a women’s perspective on this – anyone?
Love
K. Hariohm
K. Hariohm
