The book reporting on the International Science Council study "A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?" by Marie-Françoise Roy, Collette Guillopé, Mark Cesa, Rachel Ivie, Susan White, Helena Mihaljevic, Lucía Santamaría, Regina Kelly, Merrilyn Goos, Silvina Ponce Dawson, Igle Gledhill, and Mei-Hung Chiu has appeared.

The book reports on a three-year project (2017–2019) funded by the International Science Council and involving eleven scientific partner organizations. The main goal of the project was to investigate the gender gap in STEM disciplines from different angles, globally and across disciplines. The authors have performed (i) a global survey of scientists with more than 32,000 responses; (ii) an investigation of the effect of gender in millions of scientific publications; and (iii) the compilation of best-practice initiatives that address the gender gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences at various levels. It is concluded that the gender gap is very real in science and mathematics.

The authors present methodologies, insights, and tools that have been developed throughout the project, as well as a set of recommendations for different audiences: instructors and parents; educational institutions; scientific unions and other organizations responsible for science policy.

A Webinar with Chelsea Bock, Mark Cesa, Helena Mihaljevic, Merrilyn Goos, and Mei-Hung Chiu took place on September 1, 2020, and granted the possibility to speak directly with the authors on the different aspects of their study.

A link to the study : https://gender-gap-in-science.org/project-book-booklet/

The book can be downloaded from https://zenodo.org/record/3882609

The 8-page booklet can be downloaded from https://gender-gap-in-science.org/promotional-materials/